Robert Crais 
Hostage [EPUB ebook] 

‘Another terrific stand-alone novel . . . Blistering’ OBSERVERWould you sacrifice another family to save your own?Jeff Talley left his high-stress job as a frontline negotiator with the LAPD’s SWAT unit when he failed to prevent a man from killing his family and then himself. Talley takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy, affluent suburb, but he is soon plunged back into the high-pressure world he left behind when three young men, fleeing a robbery, burst into a home and take the family hostage. For Talley, the nightmare has barely begun. Because this isn’t just any house. It belongs to an accountant who launders money for LA’s renegade Mafia family – and they don’t want the police involved…