ANTHONY LARK has a list of names -- Henry Kormoran, Sutton Bell, Terry Dawtrey. To his eyes, the names glow red on the page. They move. They breathe. The men on the list were once involved in a notorious robbery. And now Lark is hunting them, and he won't stop until every one of them is dead.

DAVID LOOGAN -- editor of the mystery magazine Gray Streets -- is living a quiet life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Detective ELIZABETH WAISHKEY and her daughter. But soon David and Elizabeth are drawn into Lark's violent world. As Elizabeth works to track down Lark, David befriends LUCY NAVARRO, a reporter with a crazy theory about the case that threatens to implicate some very powerful people. And when Lucy disappears without a trace, David decides her theory may not be so crazy after all...