While the rest of the world moves along at its regular
pace, life is about to get extremely hectic and dicey for
Paul Madriani. A chance encounter with a beautiful young
woman in the produce section of a supermarket connects this
San Diego attorney with events that will change his life
and the United States forever.
Katia Solaz has been lured from Costa Rica to San Diego by
a coin collector, an older man named Emerson Pike. He is in
essence keeping her against her will with padded gloves of
small shopping trips, jewelry and excuses deluxe. While in
Costa Rica, Emerson happened to see pictures on Katia's
camera, pictures that excited him to no end. After copying
them onto his computer and convincing Katia that she needs
to see San Diego, he starts the international wheels into
motion.
Someone called the Mexicutioner is hired to kill Katia and
Emerson and to retrieve all evidence of the photos. The
night the hired man enters Emerson's home and kills him is
the same night Katia steals a small amount of his coins,
enough to get back to Costa Rica, and slips out of the
house, therefore saving her life. But she is soon caught
and charged with murder. The police discover Paul
Madriani's business card in her purse and before Madriani
knows what has hit him, he is implicated in the coin
collector's murder. The FBI become involved and bug
Madriani and his partner's office and homes, then set
tails on their every movement, while the District Attorney
is hoping to snag both Madriani and the FBI.
Meanwhile, an Arab named Alim with ties to Cuba has been
planning a grand retaliation on the United States for the
deaths of his family members. He has sent the Mexicutioner
to take care of Katia and Emerson Pike. He holds Katia's
grandfather, the guardian of a Russian uranium bomb such as
the one used over Hiroshima, in Colombia, South America,
awaiting a chain of events to occur so he can transport the
bomb to his desired destination.
Madriani uses what little information he has gleaned from
Katia to prove she did not kill Emerson and get himself out
of the hot water he seems to be sinking deeper into. His
efforts take him from San Diego to Costa Rica to Mexico and
back to the United States, where his path crosses several
times with the Mexicutioner and ultimately with Alim. A
desperate race with time is all that stands between
Madriani and a catastrophic tragedy.
Steve Martini's thriller, GUARDIAN OF LIES,
continues with Paul Madriani, a solid, genuinely caring
defense attorney who is compelled to seek the truth. His
character is refreshing; the well-crafted plot succinctly
moves in a straightforward motion to a satisfying
conclusion.
Defense attorney Paul Madriani gets caught in a web
of
deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin
dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious
assassin
in one of the most entertaining novels yet in this New
York Times bestselling series.
A woman
pauses
in the hallway of a darkened San Diego beach house at
night—
listening for just the right moment when she can flee
before her companion notices that she's gone.
A
man outside watches the same mansion, waiting for a sign
that he can enter on his mission of blood and carnage.
So begins this riveting new tale about Paul Madriani
and his latest case—that of Katia, a woman accused of an
unlikely crime—a trial that will unravel a careful but
horrifying conspiracy. Madriani soon realizes that he's
signed onto something much more sinister than a botched
heist. As he searches for the truth that will clear
Katia's
name, he finds himself on a path that takes him from
Southern California to Costa Rica, and, ultimately, to a
secret buried since Castro's rise to power.
Together with his partner, Harry Hinds, Madriani must
piece
together the threads of a decades-old conspiracy
involving
priceless gold coins, an aging American spy, a
disaffected
Russian soldier, and a forgotten weapon from the days of
JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the separate strands
of the story come together, Madriani finds information
that
will ultimately lead him to the one person who holds the
key to it all: a man some call "The Guardian of Lies."
In this fascinating thriller from New York
Times
bestselling author Steve Martini, Paul Madriani faces his
most challenging—and most urgent—case yet, a breathless
story that combines fact and fiction and will hold
readers
captive until its final, explosive conclusion.
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