Incriminating evidence links Paul Madriani's client, Dr. Crone, to a murder. Then a key witness dies, leaving behind a note that seems to clear Crone -- until Madriani hits upon a damning loose end that implicates the good doctor after all.

"Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach--each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. A GHASTLY ENIGMA WITH NO APPARENT SOLUTION. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene--and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the...

Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.

"A simple list. Twelve names. None familiar. When an elderly small town doctor dies, his widow contacts his most famous former patient - a noted author and neuroscientist. It seems that the doctor has left him something. A list of names. A mystery of sorts. One that the doctor has taken great pains not to explain. But one that he feels the scientist alone can solve.... What starts out as a lukewarm promise to honor the doctor's wish soon turns...