Long Way Down

Synopsis

From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning debut novel Black Fridays, comes a story of murder, greed, and corruptionand the lengths to which one man will go for his family. He approached me in the streetbone-thin, gray-bearded, holding out a small envelope. The man said youd give me five bucks for it. Inside was a one-word message: RUN. Two years in a federal prison has changed Jason Stafford, is still changing him, but one thing it has taught him as a financial investigator is how to detect a lie. He doesnt think Philip Haley is lying. An engineer on the verge of a biofuel breakthrough, Haley has been indicted for insider trading on his own company, and Stafford believes him when he says hes been set up. Haley does indeed have enemies. He is not a nice man. Doesnt make him a criminal. It does make him dangerous to be around, though. The deeper Stafford investigates, the more secrets he starts to uncover, secrets people would kill for. And thats exactly what happens. Soon, it is Stafford himself who is under attack and, worse, his familyhis fiancEe, his young sonand he is a fugitive, desperately trying to stay one step ahead of both the killers and the law.