Headline/Hachette, London 2009

This is Finder´s 10th thriller, introducing Nick Heller, a private investigator for Stoddard Associates, a corporate security firm, and ex-Army Special Forces.

When Helen Heller, his sister-in-law, calls him, because she has been knocked down and Nick´s brother Roger has been kidnapped, Nick promises to help, more for her sake than his estranged brother´s. And there is Helen´s teenage son Gabe who Nick does not want to let down. Helen and her husband both work for Gifford Industries.

Nick has just solved a case involving an airplane load of dollars, that also disappeared. But Nick is not to be fooled and finds the money (meant for the Iraque war) and a connection to Traverse, another of Finder´s mysterious firms. And then Paladin Worldwide (a Blackwater lookalike) turns out to be a key player, too. And everybody is in a terrible mess, including the reader. Nick´s father, who spends time in prison because of financial fraud, seems to know more about Roger and his secret agenda than Nick, but luckily he has help from his computer-nerd friends, so he can unerringly come to the core of it all, quite contrary to the reader, who is totally lost .