Blurbed as Five Hunters. Thirteen hostages. One reluctant hero, the first paragraph of POWER PLAY is:
"If you've never killed someone, you really can't imagine what it's like. You don't want to know. It leaves you with something hard and leaden in the pit of your stomach, something that never dissolves."
Jake Landry keeps himself to himself - with a past like his you need to.
A junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace corporation, Jake is a modest quiet guy. So when he's ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual company retreat he seems out of his element, surrounded by the arrogant men who run the company. The only person he knows is the CEO's special assistant - his old girlfriend, Ali Hillman.
Then a group of local hunters crash the opening night festivities and take them hostage. Cut off from the rest of the world, the executives are at the mercy of these armed hunters, who plan to steal a vast fortune from the billion-dollar corporation. But the hostage-takers aren't who they appear to be. And neither is Jake Landry...