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When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. Ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown," than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history--a history of betrayal and deception that moves...

Private detective Jack Casey is drawn back into his former life as an FBI profiler when a mass murderer, known as the Sandman, begins killing whole families and neighborhoods with devastating explosions, and makes it known he wants Casey to suffer.