Leave No Trace

Writing as A.J. Landau, Jeff Ayers (who reviews for LJ) and Jon Land (Murder at the CDC), start a new series that leaps off the page. Young Danny Logan is visiting the Statue of Liberty with his family when he notices something amiss about an approaching boat. Then a powerful explosion engulfs Liberty Island. National Park Service agent Michael Walker is sent to NYC to take charge of the emergency. On the scene, he gets a hostile reaction from the FBI’s Gina Delgado, who’s heading the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Amid the mayhem, Walker finds a shaken and wounded Danny, who tells him about the strange boat he saw. Despite their awkward first meeting, Walker and Delgado must work together to thwart a domestic terrorism plot that is audacious, and disastrous, in scope. The action doesn’t abate after the novel’s impressive opening pages, as new terror targets appear and the perpetrators further their plans to throw the United States into chaos.