Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD's SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage.

Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD"s SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage.

 For Talley, the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isn"t just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LA"s renegade Mafia family and they don"t want the police involved...

 As Talley desperately tries to save the hostages, he finds that his own family are at risk. And the only person capable of defusingthe situation is the least stable of them all.

PROLOGUE

Part One THE AVOCADO ORCHARD

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Part Two THE FLY

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Part Three  THE HEAD

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Part Four TACTICS

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Part Five THE AVOCADO ORCHARD

Chapter 29