Robert Crais is the author of The Sentry and writes high-octane thrillers. He also used to write scripts for the TV series Miami Vice.
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike – who soon determine that it was no sham. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the volatile world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocents, but on each other. They steal, buy and sell human beings like commodities.
When Cole goes undercover to try to buy the pair back, he is also taken. Now it is up to Pike to hunt down and rescue all three missing people, before it’s too late.