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BOOK SYNOPSIS
28 year-old Peter Rust is dead of a childhood brain injury,
and John, his older brother and fellow orphan, who
dedicated himself to his care, goes missing without a
trace. What happened? And was that old injury from an
accident? Natural causes? Or murder? How to reconstruct
the past and identify the suspects? Three decades
become a near-impossible barrier to overcome.
Joe Gunther of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation is
assigned this very cold case, and his skills tested to the
limit. Uneasily forced to team up with private eye Sally
Kravitz and reporter Rachel Reiling, the VBI uncovers
an ancient tale of avarice, betrayal, and vengeance that
swirled around the growing Rust boys, finally dictating
their fate. Worse still, the people their late parents
consorted with—forgotten, relentless, but now jolted
to action by this probing for answers—emerge with a
destructive passion.
And what of John Rust? Does he hold the key to it all? Is
he guilty of murder? Is he even still alive? Time is short,
and the death toll begins to climb…
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