From a #1 bestselling author, a fast, furious thriller in which Jake Boulder takes on a personal mission--and a professional killer. Tasked with finding a beneficiary and revealing a dead woman's secret, Jake Boulder travels from Colorado to New York with his girlfriend Taylor. He also has a personal mission: to find his estranged father. The old man may not be good for much, but he could be source of a life-saving transfusion for an ailing family member. Once there, Boulder becomes embroiled in a web of mystery, deceit, and violence that sees him pitted against a professional assassin known only as The Mortician. Boulder will have to use every drop of his courage and cunning to survive the chaos that envelops him . "A hero who is as sharp with his wits, and his tongue, as he is with his fists." --Matt Hilton, bestselling author of the Joe Hunter novels.