
His cell phone doesn't work, but he does have a two-way radio whose companion is in the hands of Davey, a mentally challenged young man who finds the phone near the scene of the accident.


But when their van crashes head-on into a truck and three of them are killed (the fourth dies later "in hospital"), Michael is trapped. As a prank, four of his friends bury Michael alive in a coffin equipped with a breathing tube and a bottle of whiskey and leave him, ostensibly for a couple of hours. Michael Harrison, a successful real estate developer with a penchant for practical jokes, gets a horrible taste of his own medicine.

British author James's far-fetched but terrifying thriller is the first of a new series featuring Det.
