by Barry Eisler
First published 2021
Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz wants to put financier Andrew Schrader behind bars for trafficking children. Schrader holds videos that could destroy powerful figures in America's national security apparatus. Those figures send Marvin Manus, a deadly contractor trained in intelligence work and hardened by military service and prison, to eliminate Diaz. Former Marine sniper Dox and black ops specialist Daniel Larison receive different orders: keep the prosecutor breathing. Multiple parties scramble to seize the videos and their blackmail potential. Diaz gains unlikely allies in Seattle detective Livia Lone, assassination expert John Rain, and former Mossad operative Delilah. This team refuses to follow standard protocols or accept conventional limitations. They choose confrontation on their own terms, embracing disorder as their weapon against a corrupt system that protects predators.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: America, Seattle
Period: 21st-century
445 pages · Hardcover · Thomas & Mercer
Content warnings: child-abuse, trafficking, violence