MISSING

“As ferocious to read as it is soul wrenching.” —Ken Bruen

Jack Searle, a former Marine, lives a life of quiet domesticity in Laredo, one of the poorest cities in Texas. His wife dead, he raises the teenaged daughters she had from a previous marriage and works as a private contractor. Once a month, they venture across the border into Nuevo Laredo, to visit the girls' Mexican cousins. It's when Jack's eldest step-daughter, Marina, asks to attend an evening concert on the Mexican side accompanied only by her cousin, that things go wrong. Against his better judgment, Jack allows the trip. Marina and her cousin do not return home that night or the next day Jack seeks help from the US consulate and the Mexican authorities, but it is only police inspector Gonzalo Soler who seems to care. As Gonzalo begins an investigation, the entire police force is relieved of duty on corruption charges and the Mexican army takes control of the city. Jack funds further investigation out of his own pocket, and he and Gonzalo cut a bloody path through the dangerous streets of the city. Can they hope to find the truth and escape alive or shall they pay with their lives for the knowledge of what was done?