From the author of the acclaimed thriller *Sweepers*, an explosive return to the world of the top secret intelligence operatives whose job it is to 'kill the killers'-and this time it's personal. Edwin Kreiss, a retired 'sweeper' who spent years 'retrieving' rogue operatives and making them disappear,finds himself back on the job-if unofficially-when his daughter vanishes in the woods of rural West Virginia. Using his old skills of tracking, hunting, high-tech and low-tech intelligence work, and whatever else he has in his bag of tricks, he mounts his own search and investigation. Suddenly thrown into conflict with people from his murky past, and with a female FBI agent determined to crack the case first, he becomes targeted for retrieval by one of his own kind-a sweeper named...