Greenwich, Connecticut, detective Ty Hauck (introduced in The Dark Tide) witnesses a man gunned down at a local convenience store, and at first glance it looks like a random act of violence. But when Annie, a local restaurateur, approaches Hauck with information about the crime, the case soon reveals connections to shady dealings at a chain of casinos, the same casinos that Hauck’s brother, Patrick, a state administrator, has helped license. Hauck must protect both Annie and his brother from people who would rather see them disappear and find the end of a trail that looks more corrupt, dirty, and deadly by the minute.

ANDREW GROSS is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Blue Zone and The Dark Tide and coauthor with James Patterson of five number-one best-sellers. He has degrees from Middlebury College and Columbia University and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife Lynn. They have three children.