A beloved wife is killed in a murder-for-profit scheme. A criminology professor seeks revenge.
While investigating his wife’s murder, Rud Gordon uncovers a firm that kills clients after buying their life insurance policies. The motive—increase profits by securing the death-benefit payouts, fast. The hunter becomes the hunted, when an old nemesis and a super-model assassin act to stop the ex-Army Ranger.
Mysteries blend in a novel for mature readers. Can Rud stay alive long enough to eliminate those who killed his spouse and threaten his daughter? Why does the military hero join a heroin trafficking ring? How does his long-ago romance in Burma come back to haunt him? Will he fall for the exotic assassin sent to kill him?
The thrilling page-turner is set primarily in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It features two original, quirky characters. Rudyard Gordon is a decorated ex-Army Ranger, a respected criminology professor, and a criminal. A flawed hero avenging his wife’s murder, he becomes a mixture of Jack Reacher and Walter White. Born in Burma, Pema Greene is kidnapped by the Chinese and trained as an undercover asset. The exotic woman becomes a successful Parisian model. She and Gordon cross paths when her foster parents are killed after selling their insurance policies. Death and mayhem follow in their footsteps. A surprise ending teases the reader.
In his debut work of fiction, JC builds upon experiences as a business professor, social psychologist, and decorated Ranger-qualified Army officer to write a thrilling page-turner. He has published non-fiction books on high-stakes decision-making with Simon & Schuster and John Wiley, as well as works on consumer behavior with Macmillan, Prentice-Hall, and Cengage.