Ten years after he double-crossed his clients, mob hitman Michael Shaeffer finds his new life in England threatened when the Mafia, the police, the FBI, and the Justice Department come after him.

Former LAPD SWAT unit hostage negotiator Jeff Talley is thrown back into the high-pressure world he's tried to leave behind when a family is taken hostage in their Los Angeles home by three fleeing robbers. But Talley's nightmare just begins because the house holds the dirty secrets of the city's biggest crime lord. And those inside aren't the only ones held hostage. A "New York Times" Notable Book. (July).