In this sequel to McMahon's electrifying series debut, Head Cases, Gardner Camden and the PAR team return to investigate potentially connected cases.
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI's hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.
PAR's latest case involves a militia group stockpiling weapons. When their confidential informant in the case is killed, it quickly becomes clear that the militia did not kill him.
As the squad looks into the evidence surrounding his murder, an unidentified man is caught on camera with their informant. This mystery man's picture is connected to another case at the FBI, an unsolved series of murdered women, buried in the ground in north Florida. Could they have uncovered a serial killer? And if so, what is his connection to their C.I.?
As PAR juggles an investigation into both the dead women and the militia, they enroll a new informant, only to find the case escalating in dangerous ways. How will PAR handle a case that increasingly looks like a terrorist plot? And in the serial case, with no puzzles or witnesses, and few leads, how will a group set up to decode riddles be successful?
"It takes a special narrator to tell the stories of a special squad of FBI agents. So it's appropriate that Will Damron returns for this second volume in McMahon's Head Cases series. The members of the Patterns and Recognition Unit, who tackle the problems that no one else at the bureau can decipher, are back to take on a pair of cases that appear to be related. Damron employs intonation and dialects to differentiate this quartet of awkward analytical detectives, and he makes it evident when their frustrations mount over the baffling cases. He brings alive the humor and the distinctive settings of McMahon's work.
The result is a bravura performance of this engaging thriller."
