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Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive - and deadly. Bourn in a remote Basque village, she watched, a wide-eyed, ten-year-old, as bayonet-wielding soldiers brutally behead her parents - and at that moment vowed death to all authority.Now the one man she loved has been killed in a terrorist raid, and Bajaratt, an accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, has set in motion a bold act vengeance: a masterful plan to strike with one violent blow at the heads of Israel, England, France, and the United States. To find her, a desperate intelligence community turns to Tyrell Hawthorne. Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when he learned that his wife had been murdered, a victim of the games spies play. Since then, Hawthorne has carved out a new life, sailing charters in the islands. But he's never forgotten the unanswered questions he left behind in Amsterdam. Now Hawthorne is about to be drawn into the deadliest game of all, as a large transfer of black funds makes its way from Bahrain to an offshore bank...a mysterious woman embarks from Marseilles on a mission of violence and mayhem...and a clandestine network of wealthy, well-placed men and women - the Scorpios - move behind the scences in the nation's capital to do Bajaratt's bidding and to consolidate their own power. They key to this chilling conspiracy waits on one of the Carribbean's hundreds of uncharted islands. No one - expect the brilliant, lethal Bajaratt herself - has mastered the moves of the hunt more cunningly than he. No one else can stop her. Racing from a millionaire recluse's island fortress to the social whirl of Palm Beach, from lush Virginia estates to the Oval Office itself, with the lightning-swift pace and tightly woven plotting of such number one books. |
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