America´s best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents´ murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn´t seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the trigger. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and is on the run. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn´t an ordinary runaway--her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can´t walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he´s convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents´ deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl´s life...and perhaps his own.