The Lynchpin

Special Agent Drew Cady has waved goodbye to Washington, D.C., and ten

years of chasing violent felons in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal

Investigative Division (CID).

He is on the mend, both physically and emotionally, as he helps run his fiancée's

resort in northern Minnesota while working part-time on the FBI's Medicare

Fraud Strike Force in Minneapolis. Chasing white collar criminals is a far cry

from hunting serial killers and Cady basks in the glow of his newer, more laidback lifestyle, that is, until a young woman's body possessing a most-disturbing

characteristic is pulled from Lake Superior outside of Duluth. And if being ordered

to investigate this case isn't bad enough, Cady's former boss-Assistant Director

of CID Roland Jund-has killed a fellow agent and stands accused of being a spy.

Now Agent Cady must draw upon every last bit of experience he has to clear his

friend's name while at the same time ensuring that no more innocent lives are

extinguished by a sadistic killer with a taste for blood. But nobody is who they

appear to be and information is only as reliable as its source.