A struggling Hollywood actor falls into a life of crime in this highly anticipated second novel from Hollywood Hustle author and four-time Emmy Award nominee Jon Lindstrom.
Twenty years ago, Jake Ferguson threw his life away. Once a promising Hollywood actor, he crashed and burned the usual way: with coke, booze, and pills. When that path reached its inevitable end, he made a desperate choice, and an innocent woman was killed. Before being convicted and shipped to Folsom Prison, Jake agreed to testify against his own partners-in-crime as the star witness for the prosecution.
Now Jake's reentering society-coming home to an LA he no longer recognizes and to a life that has lost all meaning. Then he meets Carla, a waitress who understands him better than he expects, and he begins to believe deliverance may be possible after all. Until one night, a murder is committed right in front of him, and Jake knows he's been set up.
With authorities closing in and more lives on the line, there's only one way out, for himself and the people he cares about: revenge.
Fans of Michael Connolly and Harlan Coben won't be able to resist this unputdownable crime novel from USA Today bestselling author Jon Lindstrom.
"Can a killer be redeemed? That's the question at the heart of this thriller. Lindstrom has established himself as a top-tier narrator of thrillers, and with this, his second novel after Hollywood Hustle (2024), he proves he can write them as well as he can perform them. Lindstrom gets inside the head of the protagonist, a guilt-ridden ex-actor who spent the last 20 years in Folsom Prison. Now he's out, and after witnessing a murder, he scrambles to figure out who is trying to frame him. Dual timelines are used to flesh out our antihero's backstory, making him more sympathetic and adding noir atmosphere.
A stand-alone crime novel that reveals LA's dark side."
