Dive into an action-packed thrill ride James Patterson hails as โthe best thriller Iโve read all year . . . tough in all the right places, tense, surprising, and well written.โ
A prison inmate on furlough learns a terrible secret about his sisterโs deathโand 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 heโs given a 48-hour furlough to attend his sister Abbyโs funeral, he learns that her body was never foundโjust enough blood to declare her dead instead of missingโand he begins to suspect that thereโs 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, heโll have to return to his unsavory past.
Ethan teams up with his sisterโs best friend Whitney in a search for the truth. United in their shared grief, their chemistryโboth emotional and physicalโalso begins to heat up. But romance goes on hold as the suspects mount. Ethanโs 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 sisterโs murder in 48 hours, he will have to become the criminal he swore heโd never be again.