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Also by Mark de Castrique:

Dangerous Women, November 2023
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Secret Lives, October 2022
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Fatal Scores, March 2021
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A Specter of Justice, November 2015
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Risky Undertaking, November 2014
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A Murder in Passing, July 2013
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The 13th Target, July 2012
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Blackman's Coffin, October 2011
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The Fitzgerald Ruse, October 2011
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The Sandburg Connection, September 2011
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Fatal Undertaking, October 2010
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Grave Undertaking, March 2006
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THE 13TH TARGET
By: Mark de Castrique

Poisoned Pen Press
July 2012
On Sale: July 3, 2012
250 pages
ISBN: 1590586158
EAN: 9781590586150
Kindle: B008GWDZLA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C. private protection company and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and its chief liaison with the U.S. Treasury.

Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of the night with word of Luguire’s suicide, Mullins doesn’t buy it. His doubts are reinforced by Amanda Church, a former Secret Service colleague now in the Federal Reserve’s cyber-security unit. She uncovered a suspicious financial transaction initiated by Luguire only days before his death. He authorized unrequested funds to be transferred from the Federal Reserve to a regional bank.

Even stranger, after Luguire’s suicide, Amanda finds the transaction has been erased from Federal Reserve records. The regional bank now shows the money wired from an offshore account in the name of Russell Mullins. Someone is setting Rusty up. And when the bank president is murdered, Mullins rockets to the top of the suspect list. As a tenacious reporter develops leads, Mullins follows a conspiratorial trail of killing and kidnapping that leads from a shadowy mastermind to the possible destruction of America’s financial system.

In an age of Wall Street meltdowns and downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, the secretive Federal Reserve has a pivotal role. Twelve targets are known. The clock is ticking. What, or who, is the thirteenth?