William Church, freelance recovery specialist based in San Francisco, tangles witha renegade gang of cashiered soldiers while attempting to rescue a young boy kidnappedduring a visit to Central America with his family. Church is retained by the boysgrandfather, Henry Kingstone, a wealthy and infl uential member of the San Franciscoestablishment who supplies Church with two million dollars in cash to use as ransom if arescue by other means is not successful. In going after the gang, Church enlists the help ofhis sailing buddy who happens to be an FBI agent, together with an ex-Israeli who owns amixed martial arts gym frequented by Church. Th e action takes Church on a fast-movingride through Central America where he and his companions encounter all sorts of troubleas they track down those holding the kidnapped boy. An unexpected threat to Churchappears just as the mission reaches its most dangerous phase - a threat brought on by theirresistible attraction of the Kingstone Ransom. Th e book is a sequel to the well-received2009 novel simply entitled CHURCH which introduced this new anti-hero to the manyfans of the action-thriller genre.
