The Crooked Staircase: A Jane Hawk Novel

Yes, Jane Hawk is back. In this, her third outing—following The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room—the 27-year-old rogue agent who is on the run from her former employers, the FBI, remains intensely determined to expose and destroy the Techno Arcadians, a powerful underground group responsible for the death of Jane's husband. Like its predecessors, this volume boasts an unrelenting plot that continues to reveal new information about these sinister players who have compiled a "Hamlet" list that targets individuals they feel are prime candidates for "adjustment" through nanotechnology engineered to alter the victims' thought processes. We witness the capture of Tanuja and Sanjay Shukla by the Arcadians, then follow them through the adjustment process and on to the deadly goal for which they are programmed. But it is still Jane who rivets readers' attention with her struggle for retribution and redemption using a personal arsenal of nearly superhuman skills and abilities.