Dru Rayne, who settled in Las Angeles with her uncle after Hurricane Katrina, is turned down when she offers to help after Joe Pika witnesses her uncle get beaten by a protection gang, but when the level of violence increases, Joe learns that Dru and her uncle are not who he thought they were.

It seemed like a simple case, before the bodies started piling up. When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two others, he's been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear. They stole...

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...