Deadlock - Sean Black

Elite bodyguard Ryan Lock and his trusted friend, Ty Johnson, become convicted felons - sentenced to twenty years in Pelican Bay, California's notorious supermax prison...at least that's what the FBI and the United States Justice Department want everyone to believe.
In reality, their mission, to keep one man alive for one week, is not straightforward.
The inmate Frank 'Reaper' Hays, founding member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, is about to give evidence against members of his own gang for the brutal slaying of an undercover ATF agent and his family.
And Hays refuses protective custody.
In a world dominated by violent gangs, mistrust and constantly shifting alliances, Lock knows that he faces the toughest assignment of his career - just to stay alive...