Don Winslow is the author of the Edgar-nominated A Cool Breeze on the Underground, The Trail to Buddha's Mirror, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z. He lives in northern Connecticut with his wife Jean, their son Thomas, and their dogs, Bud and Lou.

From domestic war to ballroom brawls. grad student-turned-P.I..I. Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate.

Graduate student Neal Carey's three-year confinement in Chinese monastery is finally over-but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle-a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada.

To find Cody, Neal has to turn outlaw in a land of two-bit casinos and roadside cathouses, and infiltrate a vicious white supremacist group spouting hatred and dealing in terror. But the deeper undercover he goes, the deadlier the game becomes. Now Neal must force a showdown with the group's crazed leader and find Cody before the missing toddler ends up lost in a world of unspeakable evil.

"Splendid." --The New York Times Book Review

"The setting is true West and the wit is drier than sagebrush...hard-edge action...in swift, sharp prose." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Full of entertaining derring-do." --Kirkus Reviews