Things are going well for young filmmaker Evan Casher - until he recieves an urgent phone call from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire existence has been an ingeniously constructed shame. And now he knows it, he is in terrible danger. Evan's only hope for survival is to discover the truth behind his past. AN ABSOLUTE PAGE TURNER, PANIC HAS BEEN ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING THRILLERS OF RECENT YEARS.