Desperate for reward money – and to rescue his marriage – an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime.   `Moves at a furious pace, even as the walls close in … everything you want from a thriller and it leaves you gasping´ Helen Fields   `Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me´ Lee Child   ‘Electrifying’ Crime Monthly magazine   ‘Our sympathies to swing one way and then the other, and the final twist is clever’ Literary Review   _____________  To catch a killer…Maybe you've got to be one…   Acacia Pines, USA.Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart – his father accidentally burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school. When high-school student, Lucas Connor, is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track – to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Lucas's safe return.   But as the body c