Jane Hawk has learned she may be living on borrowed period. But as long as she’s inhaling and exhaling, she’ll never cease her onewoman battle against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom-and free will-of hundreds of thousands. Battling the unusual epidemic of murdersuicides that stated Jane’s husband, and is escalating in the united states, has made the rogue FBI agent a needed fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the trick cabal behind the storyline. Deploying every source their malign about The Crooked Staircase nexus of power and technology commands, Jane’s foes are determined to find out her dead . or make her want she was.

Jane’s ruthless pursuers can’t end her from drawing a bead on her behalf prey: a cunning guy with contacts in high locations, a twisted soul of unspeakable depths with an military of professional killers on call. Propelled by her righteous fury and implacable insistence on justice, Jane can make her way from Southern California to the snowswept slopes of Lake Tahoe to confront headon the lethal pushes arrayed against her. But nothing at all can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase towards the dark and dreadful place where her lengthy nightmare was created.