Jeffery Deaver, the master of manipulation Associated Press and the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world. Daily Telegraph, UK returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of fire are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But its the panic and the stampede that killed them there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning peoples own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned.