"The most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre" (Chicago Tribune), chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp and his wife, private security consultant Marlene Ciampi, are caught in the deadliest cross fire of their careers- an escalating war between New York's Mafia crime syndicate and war between New York's Mafia crime syndicate and its lethally powerful Chinese gang. This time, though, the stakes have never been higher or more dangerous - for their vivacious twelve-year-old daughter is the target.