Can you commit the perfect crime?Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted sonof a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionageunit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymousretirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminalinvestigation.But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown NewYork hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bathof acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprintsgone. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book.What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become aterrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrimwill have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to adeserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsaceand the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the facelessman who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name ofhis God.
