From the USA Today bestseller, "a powerful thriller, brilliantly conceived and written" featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail hunting a killer in San Francisco (Clive Cussler, #1 New York Times–bestselling author)

When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague Detective Roxxann Dixon.

As Vail, Burden, and Dixon follow the killer's trail in and around San Francisco, the offender continues his rampage, leaving behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most unlikely of places: a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case. Alcatraz. The Rock.

It's a case that has more twists and turns than the famed Lombard Street . . .

"Inmate 1577 is a grand slam that ranks Alan Jacobson on par with such literary luminaries as Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, and James Patterson. This one will be tough to top." —New York Journal of Books

"Jacobson's latest Vail novel continues his streak of terrific mind-bending thrillers. . . . Jacobson should be mandatory reading for the James Patterson crowd." —Library Journal