Deze serie volgt een man wiens leven onherroepelijk wordt veranderd door een brute aanval die hem dood waant. Onder een nieuwe identiteit begint hij aan een gevaarlijke zoektocht naar wraak, duikt in de duistere krochten van de maatschappij en ontrafelt hij ingewikkelde complotten. Deze spannende thrillers zitten vol meedogenloze actie, onverwachte wendingen en moreel complexe situaties. Lezers kunnen een meedogenloze jacht op gerechtigheid en de onthulling van diepgewortelde geheimen verwachten.
Arthur Cathcart lebt mit seiner Frau Florencia ein ruhiges Leben in Connecticut. Doch eines Tages werden beide von einem Auftragskiller zu Hause erwartet und kurzerhand mit einem Kopfschuss abserviert. Arthur ist tot, denkt der Killer. Aber während seine Frau stirbt, kann er wie durch ein Wunder überleben. Unter falschem Namen begibt er sich auf die Jagd nach dem Killer in den Untergrund der amerikanischen Ostküste. Ein fulminanter Rachefeldzug beginnt.
Knopf's entertaining follow-up to Dead Anyway finds market researcher Arthur Cathcart still searching for clues to the actions of his murdered wife, and the secrets that died with her. Knopf has fun with the cat-and-mouse games, both cerebral and physical, as Cathcart strives to stay a step ahead of his mysterious pursuers.
Arthur Cathcart and Natsumi Fitzgerald wanted to believe they were free of the nearly invisible, malignant forces they had pursued, and been pursued by, across continents and oceans. The slightly brain-damaged, tech freak researcher and the blackjack dealing psychologist had convinced themselves that life aboard a sail boat in the Caribbean, incognito and in love, could be a lasting refuge. The death of that illusion was as brutal as it was abrupt. Even people who knew how to dodge ruthless outlaws and relentless law enforcement learned there were powers from which no one could ever hide. Not in the 21st century. Not if you wanted more than to simply exist. To truly live in the world, you had to have a world that allows you to live. Soldiers fighting in Vietnam had a saying when pinned down under enemy fire: The only way out is through. And so it is that Arthur and Natsumi take to the fight, where the full expanse of both the virtual and material world is the field of engagement. Nearly blind to the threats that surround them, yet searching for that impossible path back to the ordinary lives they'd been forced to abandon.