When Mary Ariza, a beautiful and savvy lawyer, stops to help a man having a heart attack on the street, she unknowingly marks herself for death. And when Police Inspector Jack Kordic, a cop's cop, discovers that the headless, handless corpse floating in the icy Pacific is somehow linked to Mary Ariza, he is thrust into the same nightmare.
What neither knows is that they have been pushed into the path of an international assassin they cannot see. Known as the Conductor, his mission is to kidnap a San Francisco billionaire, and to do so, he must commit a crime of unthinkable proportions. Mary Ariza and Jack Kordic are fatally in his way.
Author Jerry Kennealy, a licensed private eye, makes use of his experience in this exciting thriller.
Jerry Kennealy was awarded The Eye Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Nick Polo series and the Carroll Quint series as well as numerous stand-alone novels. His Nick Polo novels have twice been named a finalist for the Shamus Award. He worked as a policeman and a licensed private investigator for more than last twenty years. He has served as vice president of the Private Eye Writers of America.
Christopher Lane is an award-winning actor, director, and narrator. He has been awarded the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration several times and has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards.