The police and City Mayors always have tense relationships, sometimes put in them at odds. But the New York city mayor now sees Michael Bennett as a discrete investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. My detective leaps into the case of the mayors missing daughter, natalie, and sources lead him to a homicide in the bronx. The victim had ties not only to a sophisticated hacking operation but also to natalie, a computer prodigy. The murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with National Security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the center of a dangerous triangle anchored by the nypd, the fbi, and a transnational Criminal organization. Michael Bennett has always been one of my more honorable men, but sometimes, when the lives of Innocence are at stake, that has to take a back seat, survival comes first