Fatal Redemption

Fans of feisty female leads will enjoy Kilzer and Boyden’s suspenseful first in a thriller series starring Sally Will, the Chicago Tribune’s youngest national correspondent. Sally finds herself on the trail of a killer after a master hit man, known as Mr. Wood, pulls off the assassination of Felipe Spilotro, a mob underboss, who was slated to testify for the feds. Since Spilotro was in the Witness Protection Program, Mr. Wood’s success calls into question its security and threatens chaos in the criminal justice system. His achievement leads to increasingly difficult and higher-profile targets. Meanwhile, President Lawrence Naslund, who’s having a less-than-secret affair with his CIA director, Linda Orvez, has authorized a covert mission in Russia aimed at gangster Dimitri Ivanov, who has enmeshed the vice president in scandal. The authors have crafted ingenious methods for Mr. Wood to reach his targets, while managing to keep the reader guessing about the killer’s true identity. [em](BookLife) [/em]