Another action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunterโs previous bestseller, Dead Zero.
Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mallโa giant Rubikโs Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill.
Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunterโs last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiancรฉe and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killingโbut among the trapped thousands, heโs the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed โBrigade Mumbai.โ Now all he needs is a gun.