Maverick FBI special agent Tess McCallum (nicknamed "Super Fed" by an adoring media) (the central investigator in previous novel, Next Victim) is back and she’s got a new partner, one she doesn’t want and doesn’t trust. She’s chasing a vicious kidnapper known as the "Rain Man," who leaves his victims chained up in vast storm drain system underneath Los Angeles and doomed to drown unless their ransom is paid on time, and only by the City of Los Angeles, to his off-shore bank account.
A freelance security agent named Abby Sinclair, who specializes in putting stalkers behind bars, often by extra-legal means, has already had her hooks in the case for a while and is working for a woman who may have been targeted—and who doesn’t trust the authorities to protect her.
Since a rain storm has already started, the time limit on saving a woman’s life is very short—and there are already two dead victims to demonstrate the high cost of making mistakes or even just being too slow to act. Only by, very reluctantly, working together can the two investigators piece together the clues to help them figure out who (and maybe even how many people) the killer really is. Nail-biting suspense, unexpected story twists, surprise piled upon surprise all work together to deliver an irresistible read and an incredible page-turner of a story.
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