New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson is back with a heart-stopping new installment in the acclaimed international thriller series featuring John Knox and Grace Chu. “Filled with breathtaking suspense . . . Famous for his plotting and attention to details, Pearson is off to a great start with his compelling and multilayered new protagonists.” — Library Journal on The Risk Agent (starred review) When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a “knot shop” that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down. David “Sarge” Dulwich, John Knox’s former boss from their government contractor days, knows that Knox’s cultural knowledge, combat skills, and sympathy for the abused make him right for the job.