BLINDSIDE

PATTERSON, JAMES

when new york city's mayor is desperate to find his missing daughter, detective michael bennett steps in to help the mayor and strike a deal to save his son in prison. bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. just one father helping another. the detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the bronx. the victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation—and also to the mayor's missing daughter, natalie, a twenty-one-year-old computer prodigy. the murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications. and suddenly bennett is at the center of a dangerous triangle anchored by nypd, fbi, and a transnational criminal organization. michael bennett has always been an honorable man, but sometimes—when the lives of innocents are at stake—honor has to take a back seat. survival comes first.