During a seemingly routine case, Dr. Bill Brockton is surprised to find a corpse whose arms and legs have been amputated. His initial bafflement gives way to shock as he and his colleagues uncover a flourishing and lucrative black market in body parts, headed by an unscrupulous funeral director. Brockton finds himself drawn into the ghoulish enterprise when the FBI recruits him for a sting operation to bring down the postmortem chop shop. Meanwhile, Brockton’s colleague, medical examiner Eddie Garcia, faces a devastating injury that could end his career. Exposed to a near-lethal dose of radioactivity, Garcia has lost the thumb and two fingers from his right hand, as well as his entire left hand. Finally he risks a desperate solution: both of his ravaged hands will be amputated at the wrists . . . and replaced with hands from a fresh cadaver, most easily obtained on the black market. Now Brockton faces an agonizing decision: is he willing to risk an FBI investigation—and his own pri