As You Are Awake: Book II of the Matheson Chronicles

The Shadow is in a federal prison. He walked in on his own. And he has one more account to settle.Two years after the night he climbed out of a pine box in the Colorado dark, Logan Matheson has something that resembles a life. Denver. A morning run. A corkboard with nothing on it. The section chief who bought his wife's murder is serving his sentence. The man who carried it out is serving his. The case is closed.Then a letter arrives from the Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood, in a hand Matheson knows better than his own.The account is not settled.Inside the envelope is a Chicago transit token he mailed six weeks ago - and a name. A Regional Administrator in the Federal Bureau of Prisons who has spent five years running a second market for murder, routed through the prison system itself: wardens as clients, inmates and correctional officers as inventory, a corrupt Bureau analyst feeding it intelligence. The letter says where the records are. The letter says the prosecutor who rejected the Sharp Lake documentation isn't the last man with a reason to want the Shadow's cooperation stopped.And one line, near the end, that Matheson reads standing up: You were right about Jack.The killer who took everything from him has just handed him the case that will explain the one death he could never account for - the partner who walked into a Chicago parking garage on a Monday night in April 2014 and never walked out. To finish it, Matheson will have to do the thing he swore in Nashville he would never do again.Sit across a table from Williams Hadow. And trust him.As You Are Awake is the second book of the Matheson Chronicles - a psychological crime thriller about the architecture of murder, the cost of accuracy, and two men who cannot stop looking in each other's direction.