Deaver, Jeffery

German-American hitman Paul Schumann is on a government assignment that, if successful, will spare him from the electric chair and could avert war in Europe.

Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.

A James Bond thriller set in the present day finds the iconic British spy engaging a horrific modern villain in a cat-and-mouse chase that takes him from the Balkans and London to the African continent.

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways - not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.

Country pop singer Kayleigh Towne, having had an innocent exchange signed XO with fan Edwin Sharp, finds herself the target of his obsession, and, when an accident occurs at the concert hall where Kayleigh is rehearsing, the tension escalates. Soon a member of the road crew is murdered and California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance, who is also Kayleigh's friend, investigates using her body-language analysis skills to catch the killer.