She has been kidnapped along with their young son. And the message from her captors is brutal: 'If your team wins, your family dies.'

With the kick-off only hours away, there is only one person Gabe can turn to - his brother Ray, a vicious London gangster. But a dark family secret means that he hasn't spoken to Ray for years. Can Ray help? And will he?

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically-acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. His self-published ebooks have topped the Kindle charts in the US and the UK and Amazon has identified him as one of the UK's top-ten independent authors. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com.