It’s been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he’s not coping well. He’s back to drinking, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him. And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains imprisoned inside her own tattered mind. Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris. It’s a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past. And for Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening.
雅各‧列佛是名服務於洛杉磯警察局的警探,在知悉自己家族驚人的真相後,令他難以承受,如此長達一年多。現在雅各又開始酗酒,洛杉磯警局的特別行動部門持續秘密監視著他,此外,一位名叫瑪伊的女子一直在他心中盤旋不去。就在雅各試圖要連繫母親時,卻發現母親仍陷於自己破碎的心靈裡無法自拔。後來雅各偶然發現了一個卷宗,裡面記載了一樁懸而未決的謀殺案,這使雅各的生活一夕間變色。要找出兇手,雅各就得踏過半個地球到巴黎。追尋真相的過程危機四伏,也讓雅各陷入過去的陰霾,對雅各來說,最可怕的莫過如此。