The search for a killer in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA becomes a dizzying video game of cat and mouse in an exciting novel of psychological suspense.

“Lombard is your Moriarty, Frost. Acquiring him down would be the most dangerous point you’ve ever carried out.”

San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton hadn’t seen his estranged friend Denny in years. Not until he dies in Frost’s hands uttering your final inexplicable word: Lombard. Denny appears to be the latest sufferer within a string of murders linked by a distinctive idea: the painting of the spiraled snake close to the crime scenes. Could it be the work of a serial killer? Or is Denny’s death even more twisted and personal?

To get the answer, Frost reaches into a nest of vipers—San Francisco’s shady elite—where the whispered name of Lombard is just one secret. Right now, drawn right into a cat-and-mouse video game with an foe who understands his every move, Frost discovers there is absolutely no one he can trust. And someplace straight down the crooked streets of the city, Frost’s cunning adversary is normally coiled and prepared to strike again.