Kathy Reichs�#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones�returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring America�s favorite forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan. Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan�s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble�s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi�s? Or Cale�s? At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can�t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week? A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs�s �cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series� (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication�and her most recent novel, Spider Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller�Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.