“Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer.” James Patterson
STEVE VAIL IS A MAVERICK.
A trained killer and former agent, Vail despises authority and he's never met a rule he didn't break. These days he's working as a bricklayer.
Now, Deputy Kate Bannon of the FBI desperately wants his help.
Because someone is killing their operatives – in complex, subtle, twisted ways – and the body count is rising fast. Someone holds a fatal grudge against the agency; someone who knows how it works, and wants a bloody revenge.
And it might be an inside job.
To stem the tide of murders, Vail must re-enter a world he hoped he left behind long ago – his own past.
Noah Boyd is a former FBI agent who spent more than twenty years working some of the bureau’s toughest investigations, including the Green River Killer case and the Highland Park Strangler case (which he’s credited with solving). He passed away in 2011.