This is book 10 of the "Stone Barrington" series.

This note contains spoilers for the book.

Stone teams up with Holly Barker to get a long-sought fugitive, despite considerable attempts to interfere by the governments security apparatus. (And this should be recorded as "Holly Barker #4", but my series-handling is nowhere near that powerful.)

Trini Rodriguez settled an earlier score by putting a bomb in a casket, and killing 12 people at a funeral. Nobody much likes him any more. But he's in witness protection, and he's working with Arab terrorist groups (not betraying them as the FBI thinks).

Lance Cabot is back, too; still a shady CIA operative, but on his way up.