FROM THE UK BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KNIFE & DEATH

Searching for the truth, means coming under fire.

DCI James Hardy was hoping for a quiet life. He stepped away from his career at New Scotland Yard and moved his family to the south coast to start over. For a short while, life was good. But now the past is catching up with him.

Hardy recently learned that Edward Fischer, the man he arrested for a string of killings, is also the man who orchestrated his wife's murder. And now, Fischer has escaped from prison and is on the run.

Fischer is a free man, and before he leaves the country and disappears for good, he's looking for compensation from Hardy. The sort of compensation money can't buy. The kind that will cause Hardy pain and suffering.

And when Hardy's new home becomes a target and his family come under threat, he finds he has no choice but to step up and do what he's best at... catching killers.