Audio extract
Author Q&A
Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and hisfather, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. EmilyDowning, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life withdevastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and canbe saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who hasvanished without trace. Before Myron can absorb this revelation, Emily hits him with an evenbigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily'swedding to another man. Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into asearch for the missing donor. But for Myron, finding the only person whocan save the boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it isheartbreaking - a mystery that involves a broken family, a brutalkidnapping spree, and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitiousreporter and the FBI.