The Ledger in the Dark

In the gothic-tinged city of Pembroke, where the sensational Scott v. Dunn self-defense trial exposes the fractures in modern justice, junior sovereign auditor Elias Crane accidentally discovers a phantom deficit in the national treasury. Suddenly branded a rogue agent, Crane must navigate a labyrinth of surveillance and deceit. Told with John Berendt's signature atmospheric detail, this is a story of how a man fleeing for his life leverages the one place cameras cannot see—the hidden alleys of the human heart—to smuggle evidence across a continent.