This is the final installment in Jeffery Deaver's "Rune" trilogy. Rune seems to have finally made the first step towards her dreams. She has secured a job working for a major news department. However, she becomes fascinated with the brutal murder of the network boss and then trouble starts.
Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that feeds her passion for old movies. It's a passion she shares with her favorite customer, Mr. Kelly, a lonely old man who rents the same video over and over. The flick is a Noir classic based on a real-life unsolved bank heist and a million missing dollars.
At 9a.m on 31st December a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. In the confusion, he escapes without being spotted. A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C. demanding $20 million. If no payment is made, the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again at 4p.m., 8p.m. and midnight. The mayor decides to pay up. But then a man is killed in a hit and run accident – his fingerprints match the prints on the note. With the brains behind the operation dead, there’s no way of stopping the gunman from killing again, and again, and again...
