Notorious serial killer the Upright Man has escaped from a supermax prison. The FBI have no idea how it happened, or where to start looking. Ex-CIA agent Ward Hopkins suspects the Straw Men, a shadowy conspiracy of killers with a macabre agenda.
But apart from Ward’s girlfriend Nina, a discredited federal agent, the only person who believes the Straw Men even exist is John Zandt, a homicide detective obsessed with tracking down his daughter’s killers- and who is now wanted for murder himself.
The terrifying thing is that Ward’s right- his brother was broken out for a reason. The Straw Men are planning something big.
And now only Ward, Nina and Zandt stand between them and a spectacular act of carnage...
Michael Marshall is a full-time writer. His novels include ‘The Straw Men’ and ‘The Lonely Dead’, and he also writes short stories and screenplays. Two of his earlier novels written under the name of Michael Marshall Smith, ‘Spares’ and ‘One of Us’, have been optioned by major Hollywood studios. He lives in North London with his wife.