In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor's chief aide to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Smith and Chin are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he's missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. Why did the boy leave? When other teens are attacked or killed, are their cases related to the mayor's missing son? Smith and Chin turn to the only contacts they think will be able to help: the neighborhood crime bosses who are the real 'mayors' of New York. -- adapted from jacket