It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night -- and his own mother remains a stranger to him, imprisoned inside her own tattered mind. Then he comes across the file on a gruesome, unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. The hunt for a prolific, vicious killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris -- a city of both romance and gritty, dark streets. It's a life-threatening search for truth that plunges him into the past. And for Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening.