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...
- ISBN10 0752847872
- ISBN13 9780752847870
- Publish Date 5 September 2002 (first published 1 August 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English