Mongkok Station

A city that's falling apart, a man who's falling apart, and a girl with a secret past who's disappeared without a trace. What complicates things - complicates the hell out of them, actually - is that the missing girl is the daughter of one of the most powerful men in America. She just doesn't know it.

Hong Kong is on the verge of anarchy. Violent street battles rage between riot police and mobs demanding democracy.

Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. John August is an American with shadowy connections to the intelligence community. August asks Tay to help track down the missing girl. Tay owes him one, and he's a man who honors his debts. Besides, there's this woman... well, there's always a woman in there somewhere, isn't there?

So here Tay is, stuck in a city only moments away from going up in flames. Everybody is certain the missing girl is dead, and he's surrounded by all these Americans. Can things get any worse than that? Oh yes, they absolutely can.

Tay has developed symptoms that may mean he's very seriously ill. For everybody, there is a last time around the track whether they know it when they make the trip or not. As Tay's symptoms worsen, he realizes that this missing girl may just be his own last time around.

If this really is the end for him, Samuel Tay vows, he's going to go out with one hell of a bang.

"JAKE NEEDHAM IS ONE OF OUR FINEST AUTHORS OF MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS" - Robert Kidera, Tony Hillerman Award winning author of the Gabe McKenna Mysteries