[Coben] is still on a huge roll. Always a spellbinding storyteller, he is up there with other big leaguers like Elmore Leonard and Michael Connelly,and rightly so.

When Myron Bolitar is asked to find missing sportsman Greg Downing it brings back a whole load of unwanted memories.He and Greg were once rivals - not just in sport, but for a woman they both loved.

At Greg's house Myron finds blood in the basement - lots of it. And when he discovers a body, he begins to unravel thestrange, violent world of a national hero gone wrong, as he comes face-to-face with a past he can't re-live,and a present he may not survive.