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By: Patricia Cornwell.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Description: "The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway." "The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: Go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "Gift in memory of Mark Eliot Wheeler, lover of books and literature, unswerving in his faith in family and country."--Bookplate.