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on its way through underground tunnels into the US.

The rest of the book mostly focuses on this shipment and how to counter it but there are a couple of smaller side plots as well. Ex-policemen get killed, their lips stapled closed and with a note reading: “You talk, you die.”

Other storylines involve reporter Cindy Thomas writing a true crime book and Claire Washburn, San Francisco’s chief medical examiner, investigating the death of a young child.

There’s no need to have read the previous books in the series to enjoy this one.