From the bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and Day of Confession comes a new and heart-pounding thriller. Night in the California desert. Undercover members of an elite Los Angeles Police Department homicide squad board a train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. But their quarry is all too aware of their presence and plots deadly, evasive action.

As daybreak comes and the train nears Los Angeles, fate and the ambitions of others take a hand. Suddenly the cat and mouse games widen and John Barron, the youngest and newest member of the squad, finds himself in a brutal, deeply personal war with the killer, Raymond Thorne, that involves the LAPD, Barron's beautiful sister, Rebecca, and a rich, mysterious French baroness.

In a storm of bullets and blood, the narrative takes a sudden, violent turn and Barron and his sister find themselves with changed identities and on the run from dark forces inside the LAPD. Abruptly the scene shifts to London and then to France, where new players emerge. Among them a Russian detective with ambiguous goals and uncertain loyalties, and Lady Clementine Simpson, the enticingly bawdy daughter of a Member of Parliament. At the same time rumours fly that Russia is about to re-establish the Monarchy, and members of the fabled Romanov family gather in Paris to select the man who will become the next Tsar.

Murder, suspense and intrigue rise like the hairs on the back of the neck.... The Exile is a fierce, complex, unputdownable thriller in which the action spreads like wildfire from the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles across the face of Europe to Moscow, and then to the gilded palaces of St Petersburg where the long, exhausting trail of murder, passion and fate at last ends in a final, bloody and harrowing climax.