Samarkand

When FBI Special Agent Gina Difiore's niece Emily Hart vanishes in Uzbekistan, Cutter Grogan is the only man she can trust — and the last person she wants to call.

Emily Hart was supposed to be backpacking across the Silk Route. Then she went missing in Uzbekistan.

FBI Special Agent Gina Difiore knows the local police won't help. The U.S. Embassy won't act. And the FBI won't touch the case — not yet.

She only has one option: Cutter Grogan.

The former Delta Force operator, now New York's toughest PI, is one of her closest friends.

He's also a man who plays fast and loose with the law, which she just hates.

He's already in the country, however, on a solo road trip, tracing the Silk Road.

Cutter's PI license means nothing in Uzbekistan. He has no jurisdiction, no protection, and no backup.

Drug cartels, human traffickers, and deadly warlords make trade of a different kind on the modern-day Silk Road, with the protection of corrupt politicians.

Cutter doesn't care. He'll walk through fire for his friends. Or open the gates of hell on their enemies.

This time, though, he might be the one who disappears.