Worst Case

[1][2][3] NYPD Detective Mike Bennett and his new partner FBI Special Agent Emily Parker are on the trail of Francis Mooney, a Manhattan trusts and estates lawyer with terminal lung cancer.

Bennett and Parker respond, but Mooney is able to escape in a stolen taxicab with 2 male students as hostages.

After leaving the school, Mooney also takes the teenage doorman from a nearby swanky hotel hostage as well.

Mooney takes his hostages to the place he feels epitomizes all the greed and monetary obsession that troubles him: the New York Stock Exchange.

Mooney moves towards the stairway to verify this and is shot in the wrists by an FBI sniper stationed across the street.

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(publ. Little, Brown )