num_pages: 421
description:  An old man is dying. When the old man is dead they will come for him. And they will come for her to make him hurt.John Hart delivers his fourth novel -- a gut-wrenching heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.He would go to Hell At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys there was nothing but time. Time to burn and time to kill time for two young orphans to learn that life isnt won without a fight. Julian survives only because his older brother Michael is fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boil over and a boy is brutally killed there is only one sacrifice left for Michael to make: He flees the orphanage and takes the blame with him.To keep her safe... For two decades Michael has been an enforcer in New Yorks world of organized crime a prince of the streets so widely feared he rarely has to kill anymore. But the life hes fought to build unravels when he meets Elena a beautiful innocent who teaches him the meaning and power of love. He wants a fresh start with her the chance to start a family like the one he and Julian never had. But someone else is holding the strings. And escape is not that easy. . . . Go to Hell and come back burning.... The mob boss who gave Michael his blessing to begin anew is dying and his son is intent on making Michael pay for his betrayal. Determined to protect the ones he loves Michael spirits Elenawho knows nothing of his past crimes or the peril hes laid at her door back to North Carolina to the place he was born and the brother he lost so long ago. There he will encounter a whole new level of danger a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably to the one place hes been running from his whole life: Iron House.
language: English
title: Iron House
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books