The Silent Assassin

When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in his chest is discovered in a Washington, D.C., Dumpster, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is pulled away from her bioterrorism work to aid in the investigation. Just a little digging reveals a corpse that's not at all that of a homeless robbery victim it was set up to resemble-and Alex and her colleagues find themselves wrapped up in a complicated mystery of high-stakes international financial intrigue.

The homi...