In an isolated laboratory, a test subject discovers a human corpse with its heart removed...

In New York City, a journalist investigates a homicide victim with its face and fingerprints removed...

Drawn together by medicine and murder, these two men are about to make a discovery that will change everything they think about science, nature, and themselves...

They share the same face.

"Thrills and Haunts."-Patricia Cornwell

"One of the summer's scariest novels." -New York Daily News

"As compelling as Robert B. Parker's Spenser or Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta...complex and original...absorbing."-New York Times

"A Roaring...X-Files-Like Tale."-Talk

"Thrilling."-John Sandford

"Chilling."-People

"Relentless." -Houston Chronicle

"Timely."-Publishers Weekly "Harrowing."-Rocky Mountain News

"Satisfying."-Entertainment Weekly

"You've Got To Read It."-Library Journal (Hot Picks)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year