Does fiction get much darker … Deliberate and creepy, this taps into genuine human traits like fear, greed, and stupidity.
–Library Journal’ on Sunfail

On themean streetswhere dog eats dog there is always one that has sharper claws and bigger teeth, and in New York her name isEgypt.Never an ordinary girl, Egypt learned the hard way that life, even when it is being kind, is a bastard. A survivor, she did what she needed to make it from day-to-day. And it turned out she was good at it. Better than good. Egypt grew into an extraordinary woman, cold, ruthless,a killer at heart, andNew York witnessed her metamorphosis from that innocent child to the mostfeared assassinof the age.