Kirjahaku

As an ending, it's familiar: A man with no way out fakes his death and sails off into a sunset of palm trees and fuzzy drinks. But what happens when that's your beginning? For burned spy Jay Gault, a pile of money and a new face don't hide the fact that his second life is pretty empty. But when a deadly terrorist murders his best friend, everything changes. Now, Gault wants blood for blood. Tracking the killer from the oil rocks of Azerbaijan through the old cities of Europe and into the rugged Alps, nothing is going to stand in his way. Problem is, disgraced FBI Agent Samantha "Sam" Calvert has her own score to settle with the assassin, even if she has to go against orders to hunt him down. IRISH PENNANT puts Gault and Calvert on a collision course, each hoping to catch a bloodthirsty killer before he strikes again. What they don't know is that he already has a plan of his own, a daring new attack under false colors.

A diplomatic protection mission goes horribly wrong, a police officer is murdered after discovering a strange list of past terror attacks, a young FBI agent seems always one step behind an elusive suspect, and a betrayed federal agent struggles over what loyalty he owes a government that shows none. All the while an implacable enemy of the west is planning a deadly new attack.

The video showed a man grinning into the camera, videochatting. Offscreen, there was a long boom and then the sound of gunfire. He paused, listening. The door slammed open and a bloodstained man staggered in. "What's happening?" the first man shouted. "They blew a hole in the courtyard wall." Another explosion came and the picture spun crazily and whited out. The ruined room came back into view, the webcam sideways on the floor, thick dust and chunks of masonry everywhere. The two men were nowhere to be seen. A pair of legs came into view from the hallway, baggy pants over worn leather sandals. They stopped in front of the camera. Then the video ended abruptly. For FBI Agent Samantha Calvert, this wasn't just another case. In fact, it wasn't her case at all. The man on the video was her brother, missing in Afghanistan. So when the Bureau says she's "too close to the matter" and "not objective," Sam reluctantly decides to ask for help from the last place she'd ever choose: A burned spy named Gault.

When a crafty old spymaster suspects all is not well in his kingdom, he contacts an old friend. But this is no social call. Gault owes him, and the favor is come due. What starts as a routine job babysitting a minor bureaucrat at a Moscow conference quickly becomes much more, a complex scheme to trade arms for secrets. Saddled with a partner that can barely keep her lies straight, Gault is left to chase the truth across four continents. All the while, a growing cast of shady characters are looking to double-cross each other and steal the prize for themselves. Everything is leading to a bloody standoff in the desert, and they can't all win.