Black notice

✍ Scribed by Cornwell, Patricia

• Book ID: 106916413
• Publisher: New York : Putnam's, c1999.
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Series: Kay Scarpetta 10
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399145087

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY: Now Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean's length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: Go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.In a story that careens across international borders, ''Black Notice'' puts Dr. Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.