Fortune's Slave (Countess Ashby De La Zouche #4)

Rating: 4/5 (11468 Reviews)
Isbn:9781444704464
Author:Jeffery Deaver,
Pages:384
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

When a Washington, D.C. police detective is targeted by Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Loving is a ruthless 'lifter', hired to extract information from his victims, and he will use whatever means necessary including kidnapping, torturing or killing their family.Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. He also knows just how brutal the lifter can be - six years earlier, Loving killed someone close to him.The situation soon escalates into a deadly contest between protector and lifter as each tries to outwit the other . . .