Gathering the world's six greatest architects for an extraordinary competition, Renzo Piruzzi promises five million dollars to the winner, and one by one each competitor is killed off in a strange series of "accidents." Reprint.

Princeton architecture professor Jamie Ramsgill journeys to Cambridge, England, to research a new book and to visit his former mentor, retiring professor Rainer Grass, but his trip takes an unexpected twist when Grass, hated by most of his colleagues, turns up murdered.

Jamie Ramsgill heads to Philadelphia to interview for an architectural job with an old friend, but when David Laycutt disappears, Jamie finds himself implicated in a brutal murder and must unearth the secrets behind Laycutt's flight before there are moredeaths