Paul Carson is a doctor based in south Dublin where he runs an Asthma and Allergy clinic for children. He has published a number of health books and, as well as writing for various medical journals, he was editor of Irish Doctor magazine. His first novel, Scalpel, was published in 1997 and spent seventeen weeks at number one on the Irish Times hardback bestseller lists. Dr Carson is married with two children.

When the body of a teenage girl is found in a Dublin park, it is every parent's nightmare. She has been brutally stabbed to death.

For Dublin's police and politicians, the nightmare is just beginning. The dead girl is the daughter of a top American heart surgeon, brought over to head the Mercy Hospital's new Heart Foundation. America is baying for justice.

When DS Jim Clarke and his team pick up the trail of a suspect, the pressure is on to close in quickly. But do they have the right man?

Frank Clancy, consultant haematologist to the Mercy Hospital, is concerned about two unusual deaths. But when he decides to take a closer look, he places his own life in terrible danger...

An unputdownable and terrifying thriller weaving a story of corruption, power and greed stretching from the heart of Dublin to the shores of America.