L.A. is Romeo's town. Keep off the grass. When 16-year-old Clint Cunningham is arrested for selling drugs at an elite private school, his mother hires lawyer Ira Rosen and Mike Romeo. It should be a simple case. But nothing is simple in lockdown Los Angeles-especially when people want you dead.

As Romeo digs deeper, the mystery grows darker. Who is pulling Clint Cunningham's strings? Why won't he talk? And who wants Romeo eliminated for good?

Layer by layer and corner by corner, Romeo fights his way toward the answers-and a shattering revelation that turns his world upside down.

International Thriller Writers Award winner James Scott Bell delivers another knockout in the hit series that is "sharp as a switchblade" (Meg Gardiner)