In this breathtaking thriller from a┬аNew York Times┬аbestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be aliveтАФand must break out of prison to find out the truth. ┬а
David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in loveтАФuntil one fateful night when David woke to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall.┬а ┬а
Half a decade later, DavidтАЩs been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security prisonтАФa fate which, grieving and wracked with guilt, David didnтАЩt have the will to fight. The world has moved on without him. Then CherylтАЩs younger sister, Rachel, makes a surprise appearance during visiting hours bearing a strange photograph . . . in the background, just barely in frame, is a boy bearing an eerie resemblance to DavidтАЩs son. David just knows: Matthew is still alive.
David plans a harrowing escape, determined to achieve the impossibleтАУsave his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened.┬аBut with his life on the line and the FBI following his every move, can David evade capture long enough to reveal the shocking truth?