Bennett
and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor
sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another.

The
detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the
Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation--and
also to the mayor's missing daughter, Natalie, a twenty-one-year-old
computer prodigy. The murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with
national security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the center
of a dangerous triangle anchored by NYPD, FBI, and a transnational
criminal organization.

Michael Bennett has always been an
honorable man, but sometimes--when the lives of innocents are at
stake--honor has to take a back seat. Survival comes first.