HarperCollins
Featuring: Harry Hinds; Paul Madriani
608 pages ISBN: 006123091X EAN: 9780061230912 Kindle: B002FK3U5K Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
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.
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...
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