Lynsey Tao, daughter of the Chinese Trade Minister, has been

missing for seven days. When the body of her boyfriend, Steven Liu, 

is recovered from the Grand Canal three days before 

Christmas, Detective Jack Grogan is assigned to find Tao  

and solve Liu's murder. 

On holiday in Paris, Special Agent Jane Hurley uncovers a plot

by The Prophet's Martyrs, a radical Islamic group headed by

Hamsa Assayev, to detonate a stolen 50MT 'Tsar Bomb'

beneath Yellowstone National Park. Her superiors

treat her concerns as mental illness. But she is sane.

And she has seven days to stop Assayev.

Paul Quinn, victim of a million euro con, didn’t just lose

 his life savings: he lost his business, his friends, his

wife and kids – and he’s living in the part of town

where street lighting is provided by burning cars.

Two years later, he spots Jennifer Carter, the hustler

who scammed him – then blonde, now brunette – outside the Shelbourne Hotel.

The only question is – how will he make her pay?