las vegas, nevada

In a field outside the Everglades a balloon has just set down; the lone man inside the basket is dead--an apparent suicide. A yacht riddled with bullets limps into the Port of Maimi; only a gravely wounded hijacker survives, confessing that there are drugs somewhere on board, but he can't find them. A local journalist, looking to break out of the rat race with a novel based on the people he covers on his beat, is found dead.

A ruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range...and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will soon test the skills of Gil Grissom and his team of CSIs to their limit.

Based on the hit CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Summary: Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman hounds Captain Brass to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death.