Before It's Too Late

As a serial killer plays games with the FBI a special agent and her K-9 partner refuse to follow the rules in this Washington D.C. thriller. Somewhere in the Washington D.C. area a woman lies helpless in a boxbarely breathing and buried alive. In Quantico the FBI receives a coded message from the womans abductor. He wants to play a game: decipher the clues save the girl. But when FBI cryptanalysts crack the code Special Agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk are too late. An innocent life is lostand the killers game is far from over. With more coded messages the deadly pattern is repeatedagain and again. As the body count rises Meg decides to break protocol and consult her brilliant sister Cara to decipher the kidnappers twisted clues. Putting her job on the line Meg is determined not to let one more person die under her and Hawks watch. If the plan fails it could bite them in the end. And if it leads to the killer it could bury them forever . . .