The latest Stevens and Windermere thriller, following KILL FEE. Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he discovers local authorities have taken a hysterical young woman found sitting by the body, holding the deputy's own gun into custody. She has no ID, speaks no English. Stevens and Carla Windermere soon find themselves on the trail of a massive international kidnapping and prostitution operation.