Distortions

She has struggled with mental disease since childhood. Her understandable distrust of men has her resorting to relationships for the wrong reasons. The uncomfortable throbbing in her head has returned. And something disturbing lurks behind the big black curtain in her new apartment. Why, then, is Quinn Masterson allowed to track killers for a living? True, Quinn#xE2;#xAC;"s impartiality as a criminal psychologist should protect her from the horrors she sees; but she has never recovered from the traumas that made her what she is today. Only days into her new job with the FBI, she is faced with a challenge that will shape her career. Unsure of herself and working for superiors who don#xE2;#xAC;"t want her to succeed, it seems that the deck is stacked against her; but Quinn is making strange new friends in the oddest places. When she combines forces with elusive Homeland Security Agent Philip Glass, her psychological profile of the Flight 74 bomber unfolds before her eyes. A concerned citizen#xE2;#xAC;"s seemingly innocent vigilance; a US Senator#xE2;#xAC;"s hacked home network; and the secret lurking in the mind of a madman. Clues combining like a perfect storm to blow Quinn#xE2;#xAC;"s case wide open. The only problem? What Quinn seeks is so distorted by the facts that she can#xE2;#xAC;"t see the horrifying truth #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; the unfathomable link between a perverse group known only as #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Retribution#xE2;#xAC;" and the time bomb in her head that ticks down to zero.