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Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy, July 2007
Nadia Stafford #1
by Kelley Armstrong

Bantam
Featuring: Nadia Stafford; Jack
512 pages
ISBN: 0553588192
EAN: 9780553588194
Kindle: B000SMQFZY
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"Two suspicious and secretive contract killers must break some rules to uncover a rogue among them."

Fresh Fiction Review

Exit Strategy
Kelley Armstrong

Reviewed by Sue Burke
Posted June 15, 2007

Suspense | Thriller

Following in her father's footsteps, Nadia has always known she was destined to be a cop. It's all she's ever considered career-wise. When a lapse in judgment leads to her disgrace and termination from the force, Nadia has to take other work to pay the bills. She becomes a hit woman for a mob family. The irony of the situation isn't lost on her, but she doesn't lose much sleep over it. Her new job suits her; in fact, being a vigilante is what got her in trouble in the first place. There are things Nadia does lose sleep over, though. The nightmares from her past that have influenced her choices still haunt her and continue to have more impact on her decisions than she wants to admit. Although Nadia's new profession dictates that she work alone, she has contacts in her community. When one of them, a man known only as Jack, reaches out to her, Nadia doesn't hesitate to take the job. The "job" is tracking down a serial killer who's leaving a trail of bodies across the country. The Feds are sure the killer is a pro and the pros are starting to think so too. Even hired killers have their standards. This guy has started killing not for the money, but because he likes it and that is really bad for business. As a former cop, Nadia is obsessed with tracking the killer down and not bringing him to justice. Justice will be delivered outside of the court system. Way outside, if the pros find him before the cops do. The killer realizes fairly quickly that more than the cops are on his trail and decides to take out his old friends before they get to him first. Nadia and her team find themselves going from cat to mouse before they know it, and although they still haven't identified him, he knows exactly who they are. EXIT STRATEGY is Kelley Armstrong's first suspense novel and her first non-paranormal romantic thriller. I loved it! I've always like her books. I buy them and read them as soon as they come out and make the time to read them over again. I never hesitate to recommend her to friends and customers, and I've never had anyone who hasn't come back asking me for more of her books!

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SUMMARY

Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur—and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort. To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her…


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