“STOP!” shouted Irvin, who was first in line.

The entire team froze.

“The building is booby-trapped!” Irvin pointed at the banister.

It took a moment for the officers to process this information. And then even Harold, from a distance, could see the explosive bricks attached all along the banister…

No one dared move. The smallest error, one foot out of place, could cause a chain reaction that would blow the building to smithereens.

A Nightmare Unleashed

Every parent’s nightmare has become a chilling reality. A sinister individual has taken over a girls’ high school and is holding all 240 students plus staff, hostage in the building’s auditorium. He’s rigged the building with explosives and is threatening to detonate. The once safe and secure institution has become a death trap.

Daniel Klein, the most renowned police negotiator in New York City, has been barred from the negotiation team. His daughter Ariella is inside.

Inside the locked auditorium, under the threat of live gunfire and explosives, Ariella does everything in her power to make contact with the police outside and rescue herself and her friends. But everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

Dark connections from the past intertwine with current conspiracy theories to produce an action-packed, adrenaline-filled drama.