Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD's SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage.

Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD"s SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage. For Talley, the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isn"t just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LA"s renegade Mafia family and they don"t want the police involved... As Talley desperately tries to save the hostages, he finds that his own family are at risk. And the only person capable of defusingthe situation is the least stable of them all.

PROLOGUE
Part One THE AVOCADO ORCHARD
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part Two THE FLY
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Part Three THE HEAD
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Part Four TACTICS
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Part Five THE AVOCADO ORCHARD
Chapter 29