Luke Mullen, the missing teenage son of a
former police officer, was last seen getting into a car
with an older woman. No one knows whether he went
willingly or was abducted, whether he's living or dead.
Then the videotape arrives . . .
On special assignment, Detective
Inspector Tom Thorne is in charge of the investigation
into Luke's disappearance. But it's the information that
Tony Mullen, the boy's father, is not freely
sharing that Thorne finds particularly disturbing—like the
names of dangerous criminals who have openly threatened
the tough ex-detective and his entire family. Something
shocking and deadly may well be buried deep in old cases
and past lives. But Thorne knows he doesn't have the
luxury of time to dig—especially when a kidnapper brutally
demonstrates that he is willing to kill.