Squeak Bartholomew is a small-town handyman who needs some quick cash to save his niece from jail. Martin Oals is an out of work Hollywood actor branching into some very dangerous areas. Joel Opatkin is a movie studio vice-president who is about to be fired and face financial ruin. Henry Voght is a corrupt LAPD officer, freelancing by shaking down drug dealers. And they are all interested in a million-dollar crop of marijuana. Brian Tobin's previous novel, The Ransom, was called, "stunning in its portrayal of career outlaws," by Booklist. The New York Times Book Review wrote of The Missing...

Duane Greenleaf once put a man into a coma with just his fists, and he spent eight years in prison for it. Sean Keays thinks he's about to embark on an illicit lark, an adventure... a victimless crime. He plans to steal a lot of money and just disappear. And Jenny Howell once made a terrible mistake-she went out on a date with Justin Henly, and now she lives in fear. Inexorably, their lives intersect, and as they do, the suspense builds. Praise for Brian Tobin: THE RANSOM "The Ransom is a first novel that races through the boroughs of New York like an A train." - The Chicago Tribune "Tobin's...