HE SAW SPEARS OF LIGHTNING, THOUGH HE COULDN'T HEAR THE THUNDER OVER THE GUNFIRE.

Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue team, Web leads his squad into a blind alley and towards a drug dealer's lair. The high-tech ambush which follows results in a massacre, leaving Web as the sole survivor. In the aftermath, the suspicion of his colleagues and his team's anguished widows turns him into a grieving outcast.

To prove his innocence and pull his life back together, Web stops at nothing to find out what happened that day. His search for answers exposes America's criminal underbelly, and leads him to the only other person who came out of the alley alive - a mysterious ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared.

A violent conspiracy surrounds FBI agent Web London, in an explosive psychological thriller that explores the essence of survival itself.

'One of the world's biggest-selling thriller writers, Baldacci needs no introduction . . . Brilliant plotting, heart-grabbing action and characters to die for' Daily Mail