"Eerily gripping...".The Ax" will hold you; you can't forgo finding out how it ends". -- Jeff Brown, People

"Compelling, unpredictable, and ultimately terrifying". -- Robert Wade, San Diego Union

"Satirical, savage, fast-paced....An expertly entertaining suspense thriller". -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"A mesmerizing chiller...The suspense is as tight as a steel coil". -- Publishers Weekly

For twenty-five years Burke Devore has provided for his family and played by the rules. Until now. Downsized from his job, Devore is slipping away: from his wife, his family, and from all civilized norms of behavior. He wants his life back, and will do anything to get it. In this relentlessly fascinating novel, the masterful Donald E. Westlake takes us on a journey of obsession and outrage inside a quiet man's desperate world.