"That car.belonged to a pair of bank robbers. Their nameswere Knute and Nora and they were almost as famous as Bonnie and Clyde duringthe Depression.They got killed in the Green River Massacre, but the car wasnever found."
"There''s more," Nick said. "This paperis dated more than a year before the Japanese attacked Pearl.And there''s ahandwritten notation at the bottom: ''If need be, we must allow the Japanese tostrike the first blow in order to unite the American people for the coming war,''.initialed''FDR.''"
Nicolette Scott andher father are both archaeologists-but with differences. Professor ElliottScott lives and breathes very early Americans, like the Anasazi. His digs arein the southwest, where the ancient peoples lived. To him, his daughter Nicky''sarea of concern is not to be taken seriously. Nicky goes for the cultureembodied by artifacts from the twentieth century-a crashed plane from either worldwar is enough to send her senses tingling. So when she discovers a 1937 Packardconvertible hidden in a sealed cave in the Utah desert, she is ecstatic. It''sonly when she begins to read through the papers hidden under a seat cushionthat the thrill turns to something very like a chill. If those papers aregenuine, they represent a huge find for Nick. But they also represent one ofthe most scandalous secrets in our country''s history.
Authentic or fake, they are still importantto someone, as Nick learns when invisible threats start closing in, culminatingin a murderous meeting under the blazing Utah sun. This is Nicolette''s mostsuspenseful dig, and one that will keep readers gasping and pages turning.
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