Read by Scott Brick

As a child, Jane Redmon heard the name Gleason in hushed whispers around her
upstate New York home but never knew why. Now, as a fearless Washington Post
reporter digging into a corruption case, she discovers the truth: Twenty years
ago, before he became a senator, a young Michael Gleason ruined the career and
life of her father, Tom, a public prosecutor on the rise.

Today, Tom Redmon has bottomed out as a low-rent attorney taking on unwinnable
cases and as a widower living in an alcoholic fog and a crumbling house
overlooking a lake. No one believes in him except his daughter and his 300-pound
best, and only, friend, a reformed motorcycle gang member and computer whiz,
Mike Tubbs.Then Jane disappears.

When the D.C. police suspect a kidnapping, Redmon doesn't have to look at a list
of suspects. As a former cop, he also knows that after the first 48 hours,
victims disappear forever. Even as he jumps into his battered old pickup with
Tubbs and heads to Washington, the countdown has already started.

In D.C., Redmon learns his daughter was last seen following a handsome attorney
with sharp green eyes who promised secret files filled with the stuff Pulitzers
are made of. But the labyrinth that is Washington cannot compare to the twisted
trail Redmon and Tubbs will follow five hundred miles north, to a remote island
in New York State where Jane has either fallen in love or is about to lose her
life.

The clock is running down, and Tom doesn't know whom to trust, including himself.
Is he fighting the battle he's been waiting for, or still tilting at windmills?

There's no time for mistakes. The First 48 could be his daughters last.

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