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Silver Bear #1
Pegasus Books
July 2008
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Featuring: Columbus
256 pages
ISBN: 1933648449
EAN: 9781933648446
Hardcover
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"The intense psychological portrait of a hitman--the
anti-Jason Bourne--as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only
for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born
for it. "A natural killer," his mentor--a middleman
named Vespucci--said he was. He proved it with his first
professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston,
executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her
own courthouse. He's proved his merit often, usually with a
Glock semiautomatic, but he's improvised too, with his bare
hands, the heel of a shoe, knives, even a sewing machine. He
is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune
to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is
what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself
Columbus. It's the name Vespucci gave him, ten years ago,
when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients,
marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him
anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute
who became dangerously involved back in the seventies with
an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising
star in the Democratic Party. The magnetic Abe Mann has
since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently
running for the Democratic nomination in an exhausting
presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind. But as he pieces together his
past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark,
the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins
unraveling violently around him.
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