When the body of a teenage girl is found in a Dublin park it is every parent's nightmare. She has been stabbed to death.
For Dublin's police and politicians the nightmare is just beginning. The dead girl is the daughter of a top American heart surgeon, brought over to head the Mercy Hospital's new Heart Foundation. America is baying for justice.
When DS Jim Clarke and his team pick up the trail of a suspect, the pressure is on to close in quickly. But do they have the right man?
Frank Clancy, consultant haematologist to the Mercy Hospital, is concerned about two unusual deaths. But when he decides to take a closer look he places his own life is terrible danger . . .
An unputdownable and terrifying thriller weaving a story of corruption, power and greed stretching from the heart of Dublin to the shores of America.