An old friend. A new case to solve. And missing college kids to find. The call comes at 7:07 on the seventh day of the seventh month. Private investigator Cooper Malone immediately recognizes the voice of a man who once wore a star on his shoulder when Coop was in the army, his mentor, General John Overby. Now retired, the general needs Coop's help. On the Fourth of July, his college-aged granddaughter and two of her friends went missing from a Key Largo beach. Not that the cops are too interested. That same evening, a murder took place on the beach, and three college girls who may have gone partying are not high on their list of priorities. Coop takes the case, even as tensions rise. Two other families are involved, tempers flare early and often, and the pressure mounts. None of it will stop Coop from doing whatever it takes to help the man who shaped much of his career. Failure is not an option. He must find the missing women before it is too late. From the author of Blunt Force comes the second novel in the Cooper Malone series. Fans of James Patterson and Lee Child will love the grit Fractured delivers in this hard-boiled mystery set in Key Largo, Florida, where the clock is ticking and lives are on the line.