The second book in the Richard Worse series - the world's most intelligent intellgience analyst must discover the connection between a mysterious plane crash and some indecipherable hieroglyphs on a cave wall - or die trying. In Dante, Arizona, in 1877, two outlaws from the Mortiss family demand a loaf of bread from Tom Worse, the town baker. What they get instead is a bullet to the head. A century later, intelligence analyst Richard Worse is presented with two seemingly unrelated mysteries- a baffling plane crash near Dante, and a strange discovery in a cave across the ocean. As Worse investigates the desert crash, the Mortiss vendetta against his family reignites - and activity deep in the cave presents its own chilling danger. Can Worse survive long enough to solve the case and eliminate the threat to his family line?