It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars, just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate seacoast. Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down--and a turbulent past he prays he's put behind him. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual offsite, he's out of his element. He's uncomfortable with the lavish accommodations and swaggering men who run the company and the only person he knows there is the new special assistant to the CEO--who happens to be Jake's ex. Then a band of hunters, apparently lost in the woods, crash the opening-night festivities. Soon the execs of a billion-dollar company, cut off from the rest of the world, find themselves at the mercy of a group of men with guns...and a cunning plan to take Hammond Aerospace for all it's worth. But the hostage takers aren't who they appear to be and neither is Jake Landry.

Joseph Finder is the author of five previous thrillers, most notably the New York Times bestsellers Paranoia, Company Man (also available from Sound Library®), and High Crimes. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.