In Surrounded Felton puts Tucker in touch with Frank Meyers. Meyers is looking to assemble a crew to rob a bank located in an exclusive shopping mall near Santa Monica, California. Along with safecracker Edgar Bates they plan to knock off the bank and a jewelry store while the mall is closed. After subduing the guards Tucker learns that Meyers wanted more than money from this heist. His actions bring the police, and now Tucker must figure out how to get them (and the money) out of the surrounded mall. This is the second of three novels under the Coffey pseudonym and the second of three featuring the same lead character, Michael Tucker.