Take a character as multi-dimensional as Tony Soprano. Pair him with a
mother and daughter in peril and on the run. Add a clinical psychologist
tasked with helping them negotiate their new lives - a program with an
agenda all its own - and the result is a book that Stephen White's peers
are already calling "one of the best thrillers you will ever read"
(William Bernhardt) and "an exciting ride through a dark region of law
enforcement." (Peter Abrahams). When New Orleans District Attorney
Kirsten Lord and her nine-year-old daughter are imperiled by a
chillingly believable death threat, Lord has no other choice but to
accept the Witness Protection Program's offer to hide them in Boulder,
Colorado. There, they meet program veteran Carl Luppo, a solitary mob
hit man who is tormented by his former life and has nothing but time for
regret. Sensing that Lord and her daughter's safety has been
compromised, Luppo takes on the role of sentinel, fully realizing this
might be his last shot at redemption. While Lord suspects that Luppo's
warnings about the program's dark side are for her own protection and
that she should believe the former assassin's instincts, the only person
she can really trust is nine-years-old.
