Three brothers. One impossible choice. Twenty-four hours.
For years, the Marblemaw brothers have run the perfect crime. Crypto billionaires with limitless money, they've bought police, judges, and silence. Their method never kidnap a teenage girl, then tell her parents they have twenty-four hours to kill a stranger — or they'll never see their daughter again.
No one has ever refused. No one has ever won.
Until now.
When his daughter is taken, Seattle construction boss Tom McGill refuses to play their game. He doesn't call the FBI. He doesn't kill a stranger. Instead, he calls his crew — hard men who build things with their hands and know every back alley, tunnel, and flooded street in a city drowning under the worst storm in its history.
But two FBI agents are already hunting the serial killer brothers, and they want McGill to stand down. He won't. And as the floodwaters rise and the brothers tighten their grip, McGill discovers the game is rigged in ways no one imagined.
Some men beg. Some men pay. Tom McGill builds a way through.