Deputy U．S．Marshal Tim Rackley must solve the riddle of an impossible prison break--and follow a trail of corpses to an escapee whose lethaI skills，ice cold cunning，and single．Walker is a man on a bloody mission of his own，one that propels him and his pursuer into the dark，deadly underworld of corporate corrup tion，cheap lives，and murderous greed．

Deputy U．S．Marshal Tim Rackley must solve the riddle of an impossible prison break--and follow a trail of corpses to an escapee whose lethaI skills，ice cold cunning，and single minded determination make him a mirror image of Rackley himself．But the more the elite manhunter Iearns about his quarry and the death of Iameson's sister—a suicide that looking suspiciously like murder--the more uncertainty creeps in．Walker iS a man on a bloody mission of his own，one that propels him and his pursuer into the dark，deadly underworld of corporate corrup．tion，cheap lives，and murderous greed．And vengeance and iustice may lie somewhere Rackley never anticipated．．．because a little boy's future hangs perilously in the balance．