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David Rivers is an elite-level assassin. He’s an expert in the art of violence. Honing his skill first as a Ranger, then as a mercenary, and now as a CIA contractor conducting covert action around the world. But in his secluded mountain home in Virginia, David Rivers lives a double life. There, Rivers is known as a caring husband to his new wife and the doting father to his young daughter. Soft targets to his enemies. Half a world away, on a mission to assassinate a foreign operative, Rivers uncovers his worst fear.

Ein Tag vor fünf Jahren hat Annies Leben geprägt. Ein Tag - und ein Mann mit stahlgrauen Augen. Seitdem vergeht keine Nacht, in der sie nicht von diesen Augen träumt. Doch ihnen noch einmal zu begegnen - damit hat Annie nicht gerechnet. Und der Zeitpunkt ist alles andere als günstig, denn niemand darf erfahren, wer sie wirklich ist. Schon gar nicht Josh, der Feind mit den unvergesslichen Augen, der ihr viel näherkommt, als gut für sie ist ...

After a decade of storms, disease, drought, and riots, the US conquers its troubles by militarizing its government. Old democratic allies in Europe respond uneasily to the change. Arinna and Michael Prescot are just two of the many former soldiers sent to embassies in the hopes of strengthening faltering US alliances in 2055. But as the US becomes embroiled with new internal terrorism, its agents in Europe are offered intimidation, lies, and deceit rather than explanations.

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.