Ballantine Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Featuring: Sonia Knight; Dean Hooper
448 pages ISBN: 0345502752 EAN: 9780345502759 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
When a top lieutenant in a notorious
ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state’s evidence,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia
Knight believes she’ll finally take down the illegal
operation’s devilish mastermind, Xavier Jones. But when an
FBI sting on Jones’s criminal enterprise collides with an
ICE stakeout, Sonia is enraged: Her informant’s life and
her evidence are in grave jeopardy. FBI
agent Dean Hooper has been chasing Jones for years on
money-laundering and tax-evasion charges and doesn’t need
or want a hot-headed ICE agent second-guessing his every
move. When the Bureau is ordered to join forces with ICE,
Sonia is just as livid: Her job is to save lives, not
money. But their team effort pays off as fierce mutual
resentment fades and passion flares–along with risk.
For Jones is just one piece of a depraved puzzle,
answering to an even more dangerous predator. Denied his
expected prey, this pitiless fiend intends to make Sonia
and Dean pay with their own blood.