The author of Masquerade, hailed as 'the female Robert Ludlum', returns with a sensational novel of action-packed suspense. 'A gloriously paranoid, immensely satisfying international thriller.' L.A. Times Gayle Lynds' remarkable first novel, Masquerade, won her outstanding praise from critics and fellow writers and a reputation as a major new name in the world of international adventure thrillers. Now Gayle Lynds returns with another bullet-fast tale of high-level intrigue...When her sight returns as mysteriously as it disappeared ten years before, Julia Austrian, a world-class concert pianist, is thrilled...until her mother is shot and she is the only one who can identify the attacker. Suddenly, she is again plunged into disabling blindness, and a violent whirlwind of deceit, lust and greed -- a conspiracy of hidden forces with the power to manipulate the law, the banks and the media, reaching from New York to the White House and the inner sanctums of the CIA.