2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards 2nd Place Fiction Book of the Year 2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards Outstanding Action/Adventure Winner 2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards Outstanding Suspense/Thriller Winner 2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner—Action/Adventure 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Grand Prize Winner—Global Thriller 2021 Best Indie Book Award Winner—Suspense/Thriller/Espionage 2021 Publisher's Weekly BookLife Editor's Choice "...a thriller that will keep readers turning the pages to a satisfying—and unexpected—wind-up." —BookLife "Spy thriller aficionados will revel in the lively fight scenes, engaging cast, and vivid settings." —BookLife "Exhilarating...a fast-paced, absorbing...

Former U.S. Navy SEAL, Jake Palmer, is searching for something to fill the void in his life, a void present since he left the Navy ten years earlier. Neither his previous work as a corporate attorney nor his string of short-term personal relationships filled the indefinable emptiness. When a former colleague at B&A Pharmaceuticals asks Palmer to investigate the deaths of a physician researcher and his nurse in a car crash in southwest England, he is reluctant but accepts the assignment. Palmer is teamed with Fiona Collins, a tenacious B&A research auditor. Collins believes Palmer's role is to observe and assist her in auditing the deceased physician's clinical research records, assistance she neither needs nor wants. While Palmer believes the sooner Collins completes her audit, the sooner he can commence his investigation into the deaths. They travel to a small town on the Cornish coast and follow a trail of evidence that leads them to London, where...