Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in Baldacci's most astonishing thriller yet when the assassinations Stone carries out prompt the highest levels of the government to unleash a massive manhunt.

As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there's no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of the Kynaston's maid.

La historia - que toma su titulo de una cita de Bram Stoker- arranca con un brutal asesinato a bordo del Tren Negro, en el que varios escritores se dirigen a un famoso encuentro de literatura policiaca. Tras este crimen vienen otros, siempre llenos de simbolismo. La inspectora Valentina Negro y su inseparable companero, el criminologo Javier Sanjuan, tienen que averiguar quien es el enigmatico asesino de escritores. Mientras tanto, un peligroso violador...

Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...

Newly-qualified architect Sloane gets a package from her missing mother with money and a gun, shortly before she gets offered a job by a millionaire who wants her to design memorials for six people who died under mysterious circumstances, and she wonders what the connection with her mother might be.