When Alexa Marcus, the teenage daughter of a billionaire hedge fund titan, is kidnapped, itâ s up to family friend and â private spyâ Nick Hellerâ a former intelligence operative trained in the Special Forcesâ to find herâ ¦before time runs out. Alexa has been buried alive, a videocam trained on her night and day, her terror streamed live over the Internet. Who are her cunning and ruthless captorsâ and what do they want? And why is there no ransom request? With the help of an ex-lover, FBI Special Agent Diana Madigan, Nick must penetrate layers of deceptions and manipulations to hunt down Alexaâ s abductors. He will destroy anyone who gets in his wayâ even Alexaâ s own father, who refuses to reveal the one secret that will save his daughterâ s life. Meanwhile, powerful members of a conspiracy are on Nickâ s trailâ ¦and determined to make sure that their secrets stay buried. But they donâ t realize how far Nick Heller will go to uncover the truthâ and save a life.
This book is part of the Nick Heller Books series and is book #2 in the series.