A brutal murder in the US's barren South West provides FBI profiler Sam Cortez with a last shot at redemption. But as he is drawn deeper into the secrets and hes of small town America in pursuit of the killer, the community draws the shutters down to obscure the truth. And the closer Cortez gets to the heart of the case, the harder it becomes not just to trust his instincts but even to stay alive.

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Would you sell your soul for your dream job? That is the question that confronts Chiah Deng when she is asked to join the company Mammon Inc. With conflicting views from her Chinese parents and her mentor at Oxford, Chiah must weight the offer against everything she holds dear.

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