The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the gates of MIT draped in an unusual clock and posed in a way that is is to deliberate to be The Killers First Strike a predominantly examination reveals that the body is covered in a a fine dust that under ultra violet light fluorescent blood red emerald green and and sapphire blue and and physical evidence links this to another series of of disturbing homicides in Washington DC as she pieces together the Fragments of evidence scarpetta and her team are drawn deeper into the Dark World of designer drugs drone technology organised crime and shocking corruption at the highest levels