Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 448 Publisher: Piatkus When a top lieutenant in a ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state's evidence Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the OPERATION's mastermind. Xavier Jones. FBI agent Dean Hooper has been chasing Jones for years and doesn't need or want a hot-headed ICE agent second-guessing his every move. When the Bureau is ordered to join forces with ICE. Sonia is just as livid: her job is to save lives. not money. But Jones is just one piece of a depraved puzzle. answering to an even more dangerous predator. Denied his expected prey. this pitiless fiend intends to make Sonia and Dean pay - with their own blood. ..