Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer in New York. Now he'll work for anyone -- as long as the money's right. So when the UN calls him in to do their dirty work, he accepts without hesitation. A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man : Tom must placate the family and limit their claims for compensation. In London, Tom meets the dead man's alluring daughter,...

New York Times reporter Will Monroe's investigation of a rash of seemingly random killings takes a dark and dangerous turn when his wife is kidnapped by shadowy enemies who want him to stop. Desperate to save his wife, Will follows the clues into the heart of New York's Hassidic community, and learns that the stakes of his quest are higher then he could ever imagine. As the death toll rises, he enlists an eccentric Kabbalah expert to decode his wife's...