Handled with a characteristic mixture of penetrating psychological insight and expert narrative conjuring' - Sunday Times.
Seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him.
Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together. To do so, he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush - and find the only other person who came out of the alley alive ... a ten year old boy who has since disappeared. Acting on his instincts, Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this time, he may not survive.
An explosive psychological thriller that explores the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the ... LAST MAN STANDING
'Baldacci inhabits the skin of his creations - tripping us up with unexpected empathy and subtle identification ... He has produced that rare work - the plausible and highly literate blockbuster' - SUNDAY EXPRESS.