Good private investigators are nosy, perceptive, knowledgeable, confident, and above all, persistent. Sometimes the work presents unexpected danger, especially when the target cannot tolerate disclosure of his activities. Emma Knox unearthed a connection between the death she was hired to investigate and a shadowy “Superior Industries.” Only when she awoke naked, with a steel collar on her neck, chained to a wall in a bare cell, did she realize her peril. Even then, she had no suspicion of how much her captor intended to change her.