An ex-cop goes to the far side of the world to discover her family's darkest secrets. Believed complicit in her ex-husband's prison escape, Cleveland police detective Alex Polonia is methodically being forced out of the department. Not waiting, she does them one better and resigns, taking on a new profession as a special agent for an international security firm. Her first assignment: bodyguard for the family of Nevio Lucchese, a wealthy Italian industrialist relocating to Ho Chi Minh City. But Vietnam is where Alex's unknown past casts a dark shadow--and a mysterious assassin could be hiding in it. Known only as the Ghost, he kills with drone-like precision and eludes all attempts at capture. Most disturbingly, he may hold the key to a love that Alex's father lost fifty years earlier. Now caught in a dangerous and personal game, Alex must outwit the Ghost to save the Lucchese family and her own family's reputation. But when Alex's ex-husband suddenly shows up, she fears that the entire operation could fail, and that the real enemy is disturbingly close.

グレゴリー・Ｃ・ランドールが描く本作は、個人の魂が歴史の暗部と対峙する壮絶な探求の物語です。異郷の地で暴かれるのは、父が遺した愛の傷跡と家族の宿命。緻密な心理描写と国際的陰謀が交錯し、過去の亡霊が現代の暗殺者として具現化するプロットの妙は、冷徹なハードボイルドに深い叙情性を添えています。 映像版ではベトナムの熱気が視覚を刺激しますが、原作には「沈黙の深淵」という魅力があります。映像のアクションに対し、テキストは登場人物の孤独な独白や感情の機微を精緻に描き出します。両者を味わうことで、数世代にわたる因縁の重みが鮮烈な叙事詩として完成され、読者の魂に深く刻まれるのです。