In the Hush of the Night: A Novel

Written by Raymond Benson

Narrated by Angela Dawe

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a gritty, riveting tale of modern crime, featuring a female FBI agent embroiled in a Russian human trafficking case.

Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before―that of bloody bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human trafficking operation.

Annie’s neighborhood friend, Jason Ward, is a young writer engaged to be married into an upper-class family from a posh Chicago suburb. Jason believes his future brother-in-law, a war veteran, is definitely a bully―but does he also have ties to the Russian mob?

Yana Kravec, a woman from St. Petersburg, Russia, has been fraudulently lured into a trafficking scheme and thrown into a horrid and seemingly hopeless situation. She is, however, determined to fight back and escape her captors.

Annie’s investigation eventually uncovers a sordid plot of procuring slaves overseas and marketing them in the US. Her interests soon coincide with those of Jason and Yana, bringing the trio together to fight against a deadly network of criminals. As the separate lives of these characters collide, their paths ultimately converge in a night of terror and survival in a Michigan forest, where they become the prey of evil men who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: May 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543680652

Raymond Benson

Raymond Benson is the author of the original James Bond 007 novels The Man With The Red Tattoo, Never Dream Of Dying, DoubleShot, High Time To Kill, The Facts Of Death, and Zero Minus Ten. He also wrote the award-winning reference book The James Bond Bedside Companion, the mystery novel Evil Hours, has designed critically-acclaimed computer games, and spent over a decade directing theatre and composing music off-off and off-Broadway.