The Fixer

Rick Hoffman used to be an investigative reporter. Now he has lost his job, his fiancée and his apartment, and the only place left to go is the house he grew up in and could hardly wait to leave. It has sat empty and decaying since a stroke put his father in a nursing home, so Rick decides to fix it up while he gets back on his feet.

Pulling apart the old walls, he finds millions of dollars hidden inside them. The money could change his life overnight, but it also overturns everything he believed about his father. Where did a man like him get that kind of cash, and why would he hide it?

Each new piece of his father's buried past makes Rick's own present more dangerous. People who want those secrets to stay hidden are closing in, and Rick is soon running from them. His father has been unable to speak, understand or look after himself for almost twenty years, yet the answers to what he did may be the only thing that can save his son, if Rick survives long enough to uncover them.

Joseph Finder's stand-alone thriller is a fast-moving story about what families keep from one another and what can happen when those secrets come out.