Audio Book Description:
As a child, Jane Redmon heard the name Gleason in hushed wispers around her upstate New York home but never knew whyNow, asa fearless Washington Postreporter digging into a corruption case she discovers the truth: Twenty years ago, before he became a senator,a young MichaelGleason ruined the career andlife of her father, Tom, a public prosecutor on the rist. Today Tom Redmond has bottomed out as a low-rent attorney taking om unwinnable cases andas a widower living in an a;coholic fog and a crumbling house overlooking a lakeNo one believesin him except his daughter and his 300-pound best, andonly friend-a reformed motorcycle gang member and computer whiz, Mike Tubbs. Then Jane disappears. When the D.C. police suspect a kidnapping. Redmondoesen`t have to look as a listof suspects. As a former cop, he also knowsthat after the first 48 hours, victims disappear forever. Even as he jumps intohis battered old pickup with Tubbs and heads into Washington, the countdown hasalready started. In D.C., Redmon learnshis daughter was last seen following ahandsome attorney with sharp green eyes who promised secret files with the stuffPulitzers are made of. But the labyrinththat isWashington cannot compare to thetwisted trail Redmon and Tubbs will follow five hundred miles north. to a remote island in New York State where Jane has either fallen in love or isabout to lose her life. The clock is running down, and Tom doens`t know whom to trust, including himself. Is he fighting the battle he`sbeen waiting for-or still tilting at windmills? There`s notime for mistakes. THE FIRST 48 could be his daughter`slast.
