In the most thrilling entry yet in Brad Parkss award-winning series investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live him or his unborn childA rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive The affable wisecracking Ross is assigned the story but hes weary of only writing about victims of crime who happen to be rich and white To balance his reporting he finds a Nigerian immigrant of more modest means who was also killed during a recent carjackingWhen it turns out the two victims knew each other sharing an unexplained round of golf at a tony country club shortly before their deaths Carter is plunged onto the trail of a deadly band of car thieves that includes a sociopathic ex-convict When his unborn child is put in harms way it becomes more than just a story for Carter And hell stop at nothing to rescue the baby-even if it costs him his own lifeParks a rising star on the crime fiction scene known for his mix of wit and grit delivers his most emotionally resonant book yet.
