In the original dustsheet. Purple cloth binding with silver title on the spine.

• F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

A robbery goes wrong and leads to an unplanned kidnapping – from the bestselling author of THE WATCHMAN.

Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD’s SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage.

For Talley, the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isn’t just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LA’s renegade Mafia family – and they don’t want the police involved…