He figures he's good at killing, and he always needs money, so why not combine the two interests? He's smart, he's unbelievably strong, and after spending twenty-five years locked behind bars, he possesses just a little bit of rage. Now, as a freshly released felon, he's trying something new - murder for hire. A man so feared, his fellow prisoners consider him a sort of inmate bogeyman. A man so seriously committed to death and destruction, he found a way to continue to commit murder, even while behind bars. A man who committed a crime so heinous, he was sentenced to life in prison at the tender age of twenty-two. Meanwhile, Mr Bosu is back on the streets. It seems Bobby has just killed the only man who could have protected the child.

His wife, Catherine, has long been suspected of abusing their son. The man Bobby has shot is the son of one the city's most important judges. The wife, shaking and terrified, turns to face Bobby through the shattered window and mouths the words 'thank you'. As the husband moves to shoot his wife, Bobby gets a clear shot and shoots the man in the head. Through his sights from the building opposite, Bobby can see the husband pointing a gun at his wife and child. It's an address the police have visited before - a volatile husband and wife who routinely battle out their marriage. Wal-Mart picked ALONE to be the Read of the Month for January ’06.NYPD sharp-shooter Bobby is called to a domestic incident. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone. What brings Bobby and Catherine together is a moment of violence – but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous.and filled with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. Alone.he survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes.

Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his death.and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Alone.that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react.and forever pay the consequences.

Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child.

ALONEĪlone.Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. It’s the last place you want to be when this killer comes. It’s where there’s no one to hear you cry for help.

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