Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flighthas gone down taking with it eightyeight passengers and crew. As a forensicanthropol... » 

Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flighthas gone down taking with it eightyeight passengers and crew. As a forensicanthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team Tempe rushes to thescene to assist in body recovery and identification.She finds a field of carnage torsos in trees limbs strewn among burstingsuitcases and smoldering debris. Many of the dead are members of a universitysoccer team. Is Tempes daughter Katy among them?Frantic with worry Tempe joins colleagues from the FBI the NTSB and otheragencies to search for explanations. Was the plane brought down by a bomb aninsurance plot a political assassination or simple mechanical failure? Andwhat about the prisoner on the plane who was being extradited to Canada? Didsomeone want him silenced forever?Even more puzzling for Tempe is a disembodied foot found near the debris field.Tempes microscopic analysis suggests it could not have belonged to anypassenger. And what about the disturbing evidence Tempe discovers in the soiloutside a remote mountain enclave? What secrets lie hidden there and why arecertain people eager to stop Tempes investigation? Is she learning too much?Coming too close?With help from Montreal detective Andrew Ryan who has his own sad reason forbeing at the crash and from a very special dog named Boyd Tempe calls upondeep reserves of courage and upon her forensic skill to uncover a shockingmultilayered tale of deceit and depravity. «