Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author Matt Royal meets the meanest man he has ever faced Jock Algren arrives on Longboat Key in a state of depression and hopelessness. His most recent mission for his secretive U.S. government intelligence agency has been disastrous, and his friends Matt Royal and J.D. Duncan aren't sure they'll be able to pull him out of his despair--then the bad guys show up and danger erupts on all fronts...