Scott Frank

A U.N. interpreter overhears a conversation in the General Assembly Hall, learning a deadly secret that could topple a government. Now she just has to live long enough to tell it.

John Anderton is a detective in a unit that arrests murderers before they commit the crime. When Anderton is identified as a future killer, he becomes a fugitive from his own colleagues.

When a mute, amnesiac woman turns up at an orphanage, private eye Mike Church looks into her identity but ends up finding a connection with a murder that occurred forty years ago.