The Pale Motive

Evan Croft, a disgraced securities lawyer in the Federal Union of Columbia, murders and assumes the identity of billionaire agribusiness magnate Arthur Pembroke. Armed with perfect technical knowledge of a pending class-action lawsuit, he believes he can manipulate the legal system to erase his past. But as he navigates Pembroke's gilded world, the hollow greed that drove him begins to pale against the man he is forced to become—a stranger whose memories and sins are slowly consuming him.