As the nation-wide manhunt for Robert grows more urgent, Puller's masterful skills as an investigator and strength as a fighter may not be enough to save his brother-or himself.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. They dig more deeply into the case together, and Puller finds that not only are her allegiances unclear, but that there are troubling details about his brother's conviction.and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come to light. Puller is in turn pushed into an uneasy, fraught partnership with another agent, who may have an agenda of her own. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert alive, and so Puller takes on the burden of bringing his brother in to face justice.īut Puller quickly discovers that there are others pursuing his brother, who only see Robert as a traitor and are unconcerned if he survives. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason and national security crimes. and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail.It's a prison unlike any other. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles-a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals. Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home.

It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits.Īfter a series of increasingly chilling events-mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink-Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter.

Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case in this latest thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series.

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