Thomas Prescott

After getting canned from the Seattle PD, brilliant, wisecracking Thomas Prescott follows his sister Lacey to Philadelphia, where she swims on the Drexel College swim team. While Thomas's slapstick antics mask a keen analytic mind, it's his nose for trouble that leads him again and again into dicey situations. The ex-detective is not long in Philly before getting caught up in not one but two high-powered criminal cases. Thomas stumbles into a crime scene amid the Occupy Philadelphia protests. Activist Brooke Wexley has been strangled within sight of City Hall. While demonstrating against economic inequality, the college student hid her own family's wealthy background. The uber-rich Wexleys have many dark secrets, it turns out-one of which may have led to Brooke's violent death. Thomas is also called to join an emergency multi-agency task force on the trail of a prolific serial killer who leaves gruesome calling cards: a number carved on each one of his many victims. It's when Thomas realizes these Number Murders tell a story that his investigation shifts into high gear. The trail jumps back to the past before rushing back to the present like a tsunami of fire, bent on revenge. Amid all this, Lacey has a health scare, and Thomas's priorities shift. Encountering gambling church ladies, felonious businessmen, and murderous mobsters-with an investigation hampered by a competitive colleague and Lacey's narcoleptic bulldog-Thomas must summon all of his considerable powers to root out the guilty and dangerous while caring for his adored sister.

Please find me, Thomas! Please!" Four years ago, Dr. Gina Brady broke Thomas Prescott's heart, but now her panic-stricken voicemail message starts it beating again with a fury. Thugs kidnapped the good doctor from the remote Bolivian village where she was working, and now Thomas's expert skills are desperately needed to save her. The retired homicide detective is quickly on a plane to South America. Hitching a ride on the charter flight of an archeological expedition, Thomas meets Incan scholar Andy Depree, who, along with a documentary crew, is searching for Paititi, a legendary Incan city. It seems the dense jungle hides many secrets, including long lost treasure. Abducted by menacing brutes to minister to a wounded man, Gina cleverly leaves a trail of clues for Thomas to follow. Slogging through the jungle and seeking a way to make her escape, she also struggles to discern this secretive group's purpose. Another goal: staying alive. Thomas hires a colorful but perhaps untrustworthy guide, then heads into the bush in pursuit of Gina. Drawing from reserves he didn't know he had, he encounters treacherous foes small and large-from furious biting ants to gun-toting narco-traffickers. Meanwhile, mild-mannered academic Andy Depree faces challenges of his own. The documentary crew is headed by an out of control egomaniac, and Andy has a romantic yen for a sexy archaeologist. While searching for buried temples and a golden jaguar, Andy realizes he's in a remote location and surrounded by duplicity and lies. Angry alligators may be the least of his worries. When their paths cross, there will be deadly consequences for all three groups. Plunged into a thicket of madness, replete with fierce wildlife, ruthless men and conflicting aims, Thomas Prescott is pushed to the limit physically and mentally. But, he will not relent in this punishing quest until, once again, he holds Gina in his arms.