The Killer Collective

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A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from theNew York Timesbestselling author of theJohn RainandLivia Loneseries.

When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in 'natural causes.'

Suspecting the FBI itself was behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former Marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc group to identify and neutralize the threat. There's Rain. Rain's estranged lover, Mossad agent and honeytrap specialist Delilah. And black ops soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison, along with their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scot "Hort" Horton.

Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government. With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, these operators will have a hard time forming a team. But in a match as uneven as this one, a collective of killers might be even better.

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Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIAs Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and start-up executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute along the way. Eislers award-winning thrillers have been included in numerous Best Of lists, have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and include the #1 bestsellers The Detachment and Livia Lone. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when hes not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. www.barryeisler.com.