Jeffery Deaver is back with a new Kathryn Dance thriller. He is following Agent Dance while she tries to make sense out of the actions of an unknown perpetrator who creates conditions that are suitable for a crowd to panic and triggers stampedes resulting in multiple deaths. The complication is that Dance is demoted to the Civil Division since she misread the reaction of a drug cartel affiliate which resulted in his escape. She can not carry a weapon and she is instructed to keep to insurance related matters.

While the drama is growing, Dance is also confused in her private life with her two children and multiple suitors.

As usual Deaver weaves multiple threads and slowly brings them to fruition. However, I had problems with this book:

1) Kathryn Dance is a "kinesics" expert, thus her special skill is to be able to read the body language of potential criminals and is supposed to get early warning to stop or disable them. However this skill is not used much in this book (apart from the flaw which lands her in the Civil Division). Actually she is portrayed very similar to Deaver's other protagonists (e.g. Lincoln Rhyme)
2) Deaver is famous for his twists and turns. His plot quickly changes direction, perplexing the reader who was sure about a certain protagonist or baddie. Again this book had very few if any of these plot twists.

So, the book is okay but not exceptional.