Silver Medal Winner of the 2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards for General Mystery Fiction!FBI special agent James Strait, hailed as a national hero for stopping a major terrorist attack, is disabled by a rare disease. Until a child asks him to use his skills to find her missing friend. The disappearance of nine-year-old Jophia Williams has sent shock waves through Pine River, where many in the African-American community suspect the police of negligence. As Strait follows a chain of clues revealing an underworld of racist fanatics, he battles people who will go to any length to stop him, including an incompetent police chief, his conniving superiors at the FBI, and a mysterious stranger on a motorcycle who keeps trying to kill him. Strait must also contend with the horrors of his disease and demons from his past. Can he win the race against time to rescue the girl? Can he save himself?
