When Joey, a likable longshoreman from the city's working class, happens upon $1.2 million in unmarked casino money on his way to score drugs, his life is turned upside down. He lives the week following the discovery in a whirlwind, plotting his future even as he grows anxious that he could be found out, captured, or even killed. The pulsing suspense never lets up as the entire city of Philadelphia is swept up in the hunt for the missing money and Joey struggles with an incredible moral dilemma.
Mark Bowden is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. Bowden is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards. Bowden is also known for the books Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), about the efforts to take down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Hue 1968, an account of the Battle of Huế.