Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday
Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and
Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash,
weapons, people.

Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has
begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is
infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone,
that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own
intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts. But the soldiers'
actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a
taste for the strange.

And where Herod goes, so too does the
shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must
form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the
killer known as the Collector ...