The heroine of the novel “Cinderella” is young and beautiful, but... She is a cheap prostitute, and her only chance is a drug lord from Colombia. Not realizing how dangerous this is, she wants to take bags of cocaine out of his house. But many participants in this complicated case will give up their hopes and even their lives before the last stroke of the clock. Matthew Hope, the brilliant hero of the books by the world famous Ed McBain, is also expected to lose.