A reporter for the Bergen Information, Chris Turley could never measure up to his dad. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle, was among the last great investigative reporters and a hard man to make an impression. While stuck covering press conferences and town hall conferences, Chris, his father’s story in mind, provides always dreamed of his very own Pulitzer, however unlikely it seems.

Then one day while he’s waiting around to meet a source, a giant explosion takes out half of the office building on the subject of Down to the Wire next door. Shocked into action, Chris saves five people from the burning building. His firsthand accounts within the next day’s paper makes him a hero and a celebrity. And that’s not all. The source’s next tip delivers a second headline-grabber of a tale for Chris, and suddenly his career is definitely looking a lot more like his dad’s.

But then it seems this anonymous supply has had an idea for Chris all along, and his fortune to be in the right place at the proper time isn’t a coincidence at all. What appeared like a reporter’s wish quickly becomes an inescapable problem. Down to the Wire, David Rosenfelt’s surprising fresh thriller about an ordinary man who gets just what he’s generally wanted at a cost he can’t ever pay, is an intense thrill ride which will have readers racing through the web pages correct up to the finish.