How do you murder a man who sealed himself in alone, and never came out?
Federal judge Augustus Whitfield is found dead in his safe room - the door locked
from the inside, the cause ruled cardiac. His daughter insists it was murder.
>Elena Vance reads people the way other people read books. In the half-second
between what a face shows and what the body reveals, she finds the truth. Now
she's been hired to find a killer who weaponized that same truth - a behavioral
modeling firm called Halcyon that turned smart homes into murder weapons, using
>The safe room was the weapon. The protocol was the delivery system. And Elena's
own methodology - the method she wrote a book to teach - has been reverse-
engineered into a kill-machine by a woman who studied her, read her cases, and
>But Elena has a move her book never contained: the doubt. The half-second after
the half-second - the moment where the reader stops, and asks: who built this
>Set in the grey winter of the Hudson Valley, with a cascading twist architecture
that keeps readers guessing until the final page, THE PANDORA PROTOCOL is a
literary detective thriller about the weaponization of trust - and the cost of
>Elena Vance will return.