For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, a stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker: The Room of White Fire is the tale of a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war. A young soldier shattered by war, on the run from a mental institute. A P.I. carrying his own vicious wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Roland Ford once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator is good at finding people. But when he s asked to locate air force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he s been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows the weight of war, having served as a marine in First Fallujah; he also knows the nightmare of indescribable personal pain, as only two years have passed since his young wife s sudden death. What he doesn t know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman and why he s getting a different story from everyone involved. To begin with, there s the teenage woman who helped Clay escape: she s smart enough to fend off Ford s questions but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed and dangerous man. Then there s Clay s attractive doctor, who clearly cares deeply for his welfare but is impossible to read, even as she inspires in Ford the first desire he has felt since his wife s death. And there s the proprietor of the mental institute who is as enigmatic as he is brash, and ambitious to the point of being ruthless; what could Clay possibly know to make this search so desperate? Soon, what began as just a job becomes a life-and-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way."