"'The Professionals' is a high-octane adrenaline and gunpowder-fueled rocket ride across the country..." C.J. Box

Four friends, recent college graduates, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise-quick, efficient, low risk-works like a charm. Until they kidnap the wrong man.

Now two groups they've very much wanted to avoid are after them-the law, in the form of veteran state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot young FBI agent Carla Windermere, and an organized-crime outfit looking for payback. As they all crisscross the country in deadly pursuit and a series of increasingly explosive confrontations, each of them is ultimately forced to recognize the truth: The true professionals, cop or criminal, are those who are willing to sacrifice . . . everything.

A finger-burning page-turner, filled with twists, surprises, and memorably complex characters, The Professionals marks the arrival of a remarkable new writer.

Friend of TC Eric B. was an early reader, saying:
"This is a first-rate thriller with a cast of 'regular people' who engage in what seems at first to be a risky but essentially benign sort of extortion. You'll be rooting for them before it's over even if they are, well, criminals. Looked at a certain way, any one of us could have fallen into similar circumstances. Maybe not."