(Paperback - English - 9780345533920)
"Sean Doolittle is a young writer with serious chops," says George Pelecanos, and Laura Lippman calls him "hip, smart, and mordantly funny." Now the acclaimed author of Safer returns with a mesmerizing story of tragedy, revenge, and redemption. Five years ago, successful architect Wade Benson killed a young woman when he fell asleep at the wheel. His punishment: two days in jail for every year of his probation. But for one friend of the victim's family--an ex-marine named Darryl Potter--this punishment isn't enough. Potter sets out to even the score by kidnapping Benson's twenty-year-old daughter. It's a bad, bad plan, and only Mike Barlowe, Potter's former c ..