Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going on, but only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in...

Life in rural Blanco County, Texas, isnαt what most folks would call exciting---and that suits game warden John Marlin just fine. Heαs happy to spend his days and nights protecting the local wildlife from poachers and the poachers from the local wildlife. When the tequila-slamming, skirt-chasing treasurer of the local Rotary Club goes missing, and his vehicle is found in the river the day after a big flood, Marlin knows heαs found his latest distraction. When...