"A superbly written thriller...Timely tense and terrifying."-
Brad Thor
"A blisteringly paced story that cuts to the bone. It left me ripping through pages deep into the night."-James Rollins
Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother
Cora
pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days
Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police
Tilly dies.
Journalist Jack Gannon's estranged sister
Cora
disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she's made-but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive.
A twenty-year-old assassin
haunted by the faces of the people he's executed
seeks absolution as he sets out to commit his last murders as a hired killer.
In the U.S. and Mexico
police and the press go flat out on Tilly's case. But as Gannon digs deeper into his anguished sister's past
the hours tick down on his niece's life and he faces losing a fragment of his rediscovered family forever.
Originally published in 2011
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