Dive into an action-packed thrill ride James Patterson hails as βthe best thriller Iβve read all year . . . tough in all the right places, tense, surprising, and well written.β
A prison inmate on furlough learns a terrible secret about his sisterβs deathβand returns to the criminal underworld to uncover the truth.
Serving a 10-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. But society has other plans for Ethan. When heβs given a 48-hour furlough to attend his sister Abbyβs funeral, he learns that her body was never foundβjust enough blood to declare her dead instead of missingβand he begins to suspect that thereβs more to her death than was reported. Ethan decides to use his 48-hour window to find out what happened. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, heβll have to return to his unsavory past.
Ethan teams up with his sisterβs best friend Whitney in a search for the truth. United in their shared grief, their chemistryβboth emotional and physicalβalso begins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethanβs old boss, Shark, a mid-level loan shark now heads a criminal empire. As Ethan and Whitney uncover more clues, they become convinced that Shark is responsible for the murder, but they have no proof.
If Ethan is going to solve his sisterβs murder in 48 hours, he will have to become the criminal he swore heβd never be again.