New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu,the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer.Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and hisabsence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.Seatedat a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting aonce-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. Shockedand shaken, he doesn't realize that he's accidentally captured a keypiece of evidence. Ensnared in the city's most sensational crime inyears, Nick investigates for a story of his own. Back off--or die--isthe clear message as he closes in on the facts. Heedless, and perhapsin love, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in athriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind offlourish only James Patterson knows.