The Tunnel

A stranger's careless guess at a Hollywood party turns Adam Najjar into a legend: three hundred million dollars, a fortune he never had and never claimed. For ten years the number opens every door — until it opens the wrong one.Lured to Mexico by the promise of the room behind every room, Adam is driven into the Sonoran desert and walked down a ladder into a cartel's smuggling tunnel beneath the U.S. border. There, among men who kill for a misjudgment, his famous image is no longer armor. It's a target. And the courtly killer at the bottom asks the one question Adam has spent his whole life outrunning: Which one of you is real?He climbs out alive — but not free. Now a federal agent haunted by her own war wants him to inform, the cartel wants him to launder, and a leak inside the investigation has marked him for both. To save his wife and a frightened boy who trusted him, a Jerusalem-born man raised over the tunnels of his own contested homeland will have to spend the only thing he has left: the truth, said so loudly the whole world has to look.A relentless, deeply human thriller about belief, borders, and the holes the powerless dig beneath every wall — for readers of American Kingpin, Don Winslow's The Cartel, and The Night Manager.