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When his "company" friend is gruesomely slain in a sleepy Tuscan village and the dead man's family later butchered in their London home, CIA "fixer" Micah Dalton takes action. Soon he is on the trail of an elusive fiend whose flair for ornamental blade-work suggests a link to American Indian mysticism. As the body count rises, the targets include active and inactive CIA agents and independent contractors--all with some connection to Echelon, an enigmatic Langley enterprise. Revenge may be the motive--but for what?

Introspective artist Ben Lonefeather is content raising the orphaned coyote pups he rescued after their mother was killed on the highway. Meanwhile, New Yorker Sarah Friedman hurries west on a business trip to buy American Indian art for her popular store. When Sarah's car stalls near the reservation, Ben comes to her aid. Offering her a place to stay, if only for a short time, Ben soon finds himself falling into a passionate tryst with Sarah.

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

Detective Dan Reles looks at the high profile case of the murdered former child star as a way to jump start his career and his life after being dumped by the woman he loves. His investigation leads him to the most pious power broker in the state and a nightmare of cult leaders and blackmailers.

Detective Dan Reles is settling into his new life with a wife, a son, and a career in Austin's homicide division. Then his deadbeat, ex-mafia enforcer father rolls into town. It seems that Ben Reles has had a run-in with Sam Zelig, a powerful mob godfather who will do anything to get what he wants out of Ben.

When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however, that a black detective should handle this highly publicized case. So Dan turns the case over to his partner James Torbett, who becomes dangerously obsessed with it. As Dan delves into his next assignment, the mysterious deaths of wealthy college students, he begins to suspect a bizarre connection between the two cases.

During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk. Among the survivors are a troubled nurse named Annie and the wounded Japanese soldier named Akira who saves her life.

Years agos, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hit-woman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord. While the boy's father vows vengance, Rinker knows something he doesn't ... the boy wasn't the target--she was--and now she's going to have to have to disappear to find the killer herself.

On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.

Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation. A dead body has turned up with a lemon stuffed in its mouth--just like the corpse authorities found last week.