When Darkness Falls

The man who calls himself Falcon is full of contradictions. He lives in a car but he has access to a lot of cash. And he has an obsession with the Miami mayors daughter. First, Falcon climbs to the top of the Bay of Biscayne bridge and threatens to jump unless he can talk to Alina Mendoza. That brings in blind negotiator Vince Paulo, who makes a promise he isnt allowed to keep, and Falcon ends up in jail. Jack Swyteck doesnt want Falcon as a client but takes him on as a favor, thinking hell plead the guy out and watch his client go to jail. But Falcon has the bail money and is on the street again in a few hours, earning Jack the enmity of the powerful and vindictive mayor. Then Falcon strikes again. Hours after his release, the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of Falcons car. On the run, in an attempt to highjack Swyteck and his best friend Theo, he crashes Jacks car into a motel and takes hostage the woman inside, plus Theo, in the process killing one policeman and injuring another. Jack has mere hours to get Theo and the woman out, because he realizes that Falcon has nothing left to lose. But what Jack doesnt know is that other people are involved and are keeping dangerous secrets that they will stop at nothing to conceal. Thus begins a lightning-paced, impossible-to-put-down story, as only James Grippando can tell it.