Inside Man
A Head Cases Novel
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- Expected 13 Jan 2026
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- 99,00 kr
Publisher Description
In this sequel to McMahon's electrifying series debut, Head Cases, Gardner Camden and the PAR team return to investigate potentially connected cases.
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve.
PAR’s latest case involves a militia group stockpiling weapons. When their confidential informant in the case is killed, it quickly becomes clear that the militia did not kill him.
As the squad looks into the evidence surrounding his murder, an unidentified man is caught on camera with their informant. This mystery man’s picture is connected to another case at the FBI, an unsolved series of murdered women, buried in the ground in north Florida. Could they have uncovered a serial killer? And if so, what is his connection to their C.I.?
As PAR juggles an investigation into both the dead women and the militia, they enroll a new informant, only to find the case escalating in dangerous ways. How will PAR handle a case that increasingly looks like a terrorist plot? And in the serial case, with no puzzles or witnesses, and few leads, how will a group set up to decode riddles be successful?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McMahon's disappointing second outing for the FBI's oddball Patterns and Recognition Unit (after Head Cases) fails to recapture the magic of its predecessor. PAR head Gardner Camden and his partner, Joanne Harris, are on the way to the Florida home of informant Freddie Pecos, who's supposed to be aiding the FBI's investigation of militia group leader and weapons stockpiler J.P. Sandoval. In recent days, however, Pecos has gone silent. When Camden and Harris arrive, they find him dead from a gunshot. The obvious explanation that Pecos was outed as a rat is complicated by the weapons and $1 million in cash left behind, which Camden and Harris take to mean that whoever killed him was uninvolved in Sandoval's operations. After the agents evade an ambush by Sandoval's men, they return to the PAR offices, where subsequent sleuthing pins Pecos's murder on a key suspect in what appears to be an unrelated string of north Florida missing persons cases. As the pieces click into place, McMahon falls victim to genre clichés—including a few instances of sloppy policing from his supposedly competent leads—that he managed to skirt or subvert in the previous novel. The result is a ho-hum mystery that fails to distinguish itself from the pack.
