"Temperance Brennan is in North Carolina, recovering from neurosurgery, when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each with a new picture of a corpse missing its face and hands. Determined to identify the dead man, she sidesteps the new boss who wants to keep her off the case. Tempe discovers disturbing and conflicting clues. Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? And why was he carrying the name of a missing child? With the help from her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, Tempe utilizes cutting-edge forensic methods to draw closer to the astonishing truth"--Page 4 of cover

"Thorndike Press large print basic series." Regular print version published by: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.