In the desert Southwest, Kimble Monroe and others fight for their lives against the "bugs," self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines.

After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy makes it back to land but is far from safe because a secret revealed to him by his co-worker is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.

Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Fink unpacks the mystery...