The FBI has recruited forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his prot矇g矇e, Amelia Sachs, to capture ��he Ghost,��a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now the killer must eliminate two families who witnessed his flight before they jumped ship and vanished. . . . Searching New York City�� Chinatown, can Rhyme and Sachs find the Ghost�� targets before he does?