The assignment looked like easy money: babysit a pampered playboy hiding in a plush Manhattan hotel. But Kodiak knows there's no such thing as easy money. In this case the lesson is driven home in a vicious spray of submachine gun fire delivered by a hired hitman. Kodiak manages to save his client but loses his cool. Because after the blood is spilled and the smoke clears, he learns that the playboy is an actor, the gunman, a dupe, and that he, Atticus, has been set up as a decoy in a multi-billion-dollar game of cat and mouse. Soon Kodiak and one of the world's most dangerous assassins are bound by a common thread: their obsession to get the job done. It's an obsession that will draw the killer and the bodyguard into the most intimate of relationships, anticipating each other's moves, exploiting each other's weaknesses, and raising the stakes in a heartstopping game where the first player who blinks -- dies.