TailSpin Hardcover - 2008

by Catherine Coulter

From the #1 bestselling author,a stunning new novel of secrets,mayhem, and murder.

FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessnaover the Appalachians, with a very important passenger:renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean; theirdestination is Washington, D.C. Upon their arrival, the FBI willprotect the doctor and ascertain just who wants him dead.

But they don't make it.

In San Francisco, married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savichand Lacey Sherlock take an early morning phone call from theirsupervisor, Jimmy Maitland. Maitland received a Mayday fromJackson in the mountains near Parlow, Kentucky, and sendsSavich and Sherlock to see what's happened.

Agent Crowne is able to bring his plane down in a narrowvalley and haul the unconscious Dr. MacLean from the burningwreckage before it explodes. Their crash is witnessed by RachaelAbbott, a young woman on the run after the mysterious deathof her father. When Savich and Sherlock arrive on the scene,they find Jackson and Rachael in the Parlow clinic and Dr.MacLean comatose in the local hospital, prognosis unknown.What they do know frightens them: Dr. MacLean was recentlydiagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, and in the months priorto the crash his behavior had become erratic and alarminglyuninhibited, his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentialitybadly compromised. With a patient list made up ofWashington movers and shakers, MacLean's role as a keeperof secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone out thereso desperate that they'd kill the doctor for what he knows?It is up to Jackson, Savich, and Sherlock to find out no matterthe cost.