Traps

A Novel

Backpacker Baz Billings sets out for a camping trip in the Adirondacks but encounters en route a group of armed men, who detain him for trespassing. In an attempt to escape, he accidentally discovers that his abductors are a professional hit mob. He is recaptured but later succeeds in escaping, subsequently killing one of his pursuers. He reports his experience to the FBI. The mob retaliates by kidnapping Baz and his girlfriend and sending them, bound and blindfolded, over a cliff in a stolen van. But by chance, the two elude harm and make a getaway. Determined to exact justice, Baz tracks down the groups new lair and breaks in to steal their files. In the high-speed chase that follows, he lures some of them to their deaths. Afterward, a surviving sniper attempts to kill him, but Baz engineers a successful reprisal. He then wins back the affection of his traumatized girlfriend. The end.