The Rook — Steven James

A series of baffling fires around San Diego has culminated at a top secret naval research facility. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, his unique ability to pinpoint the time, place, and spatial factors of any crime tells him that the blaze wasn't the work of a firebug or terrorist. The arsonists were going after something very specific -- and they succeeded.

Drawn into a dangerous world of lies, Bowers soon finds his own criminology research being used against him even as a killer readies to strike again. And with a device of unimaginable lethal power in the wrong hands, Bowers must race against time to stop a criminal mastermind from enveloping him and those he loves in a trap from which there is no escape.