THE LAST WITNESS

Dramatic new novel in the New York Times bestselling police chronicle, the Badge of Honor series.
The last person Philadelphia Homicide Detective Matt Payne expected to hear from again was Texas Ranger Jim Byrth, with whom he’d broken a Mexican human trafficking ring. This time, what Byrth has to tell him sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob

Russian girls are being smuggled through the Caribbean to work in the US as strippers, escorts, hookers, whatever, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia, where Payne begins uncovering an explosive link between a ruthless Russian investor and a high-ranking politician—and that’s not all. Russian girls aren’t the only ones disappearing. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes. Police department sources are turning up dead. The lone living witness, the daughter of a prominent family, has gone into hiding, with everybody—her powerful father, the mayor, the Russians, the drug cartels—looking for her. It’s up to Matt Payne and his Texas Ranger partner to find her first. W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, and Presidential Agent. He lives in Fairhope, Alabama, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. This new book is the eleventh in the Badge of Honor series. William E. Butterworth IV has been a writer and editor for major newspapers and magazines for over 25 years and has worked closely with his father for more than a decade on the editing of the Griffin books. He is the co-author of several novels in the Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, and Presidential Agent series. He lives in Texas.