DILETTANTE

A murdered woman. A controlled crime scene. And a government that buried it in 48 hours. When Kaiser Volkov — ex-detective, off the books — walks into Elias Vance's house, he doesn't find a home invasion. He finds architecture. A professional execution designed to break one man and deliver him, compliant and broken, to something called The Chrysalis. The restraints are maritime military knots. The sedative is black-site grade. The cameras failed in a perfect, deliberate sequence. Someone with government clearance killed Valerie Vance. And now they want her husband. Kaiser has 79 days of quiet hunting behind him. What he finds next will pull him into a conspiracy buried under a glacier in Iceland — and a trap called The Oblivion Trap.