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The Geneva branch of Interpol--the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts--is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...

During a visit to Geneva, Katie and her friend Beth spot a peculiar woman following a noted Russian scientist and try to find out who she is and what she is doing.

Dr. Fischer, millionaire and student of human nature, is a practical joker and party-giver; his parties are famous--or perhaps notorious--for being a part of his experience "to see just how far the very, very rich will go to satisfy their greed." When Fischer's son-in-law, Alfred Jones, discovers that the guests risk not only humiliation but potentially death at Fischer's hands, the two men's confrontation ends in the survival of one and the downfall...