Tracy Coughlin is a nurse and a mother. She lost her husband in the Iraq war and for reasons she doesn't even understand holds her father-in-law Lee responsible for it. Lee Coughlin is a proud man and a quiet one. He too grieves the loss of Tracy's husband and his son but he can't bring himself to discuss it with Tracy. Tracy her son and Lee are all taken captive by three escaped convicts. They're going to have to find the strength and courage to bind together to survive."

A Booklist Best Mystery 2016
America, 1972. A cynical and dangerous time. It is the eighth and final year of the administration of President Dan McCormick, the first leader of what is promising to be a political family dynasty. Now his younger brother Terry McCormick is poised to become the next president. But the war in Vietnam which the McCormick family has so strongly supported and defended has now become unpopular. And what s worse for Terry McCormick is that defense analyst Alan Hirsch has gone into hiding and taken the top secret Pentagon Report with him, a report that...

In England, Kurt Miller is released from prison after serving a thirteen-month sentence for trafficking in narcotics. Prior to his arrest, Miller had been an intelligence agent and analyst for the BND, Germany s federal intelligence agency. Upon his release, Miller returns to Hamburg and finds that all he has treasured is gone. His wife, his career, and his pension. All he has left is his vintage Mercedes, which he has to sell in order to fund his hunt for the people who framed him for a crime he didn t commit. Using his old contacts at BND and his brother s contacts in the criminal network,...