The boy was last seen in a seedy, down-town hotel - and then he disappeared. Just another runaway, or is there more to it than that? When Myron Bolitar is asked to unravel the mystery of the boy's disappearance, he crashes through a crowd of undesirables, blue bloods and liars on both sides of the social divide. And when family skeletons begin to emerge, Myron is about to find out just how deadly a game he's got himself caught up in.