Velocity

FBI profiler Karen Vail returns in Velocity, national best-selling author Alan Jacobson's most explosive thriller to date. Vail's boyfriend, Detective Robby Hernandez, has disappeared. There are no clues to his whereabouts, other than a blood stain - and connections to a serial killer operating in wine country.

Vail's efforts are thwarted until her colleague, hooks her up with Hector DeSantos, a covert operative who has a knack for finding difficult to locate information. But DeSantos is reluctant to work his valuable informants for what he views as Vail's crusade to find her lover.

That is, until Vail pries loose long-buried secrets, lies and deceptions. It's information that even DeSantos can't ignore, a discovery that reveals larger forces at play - forces which propel Vail and DeSantos into a frantic search that takes them from the wineries of Napa Valley to the monuments of Washington, D.C., the wealthy beach enclaves of San Diego and the bright excesses of Las Vegas.