Book description
Nicole has experienced enough danger and excitement to last her several
lifetimes. But a six-year spell in Marseilles' toughest prison has cured
her adrenaline habit. Now peace and quiet are what she craves. A
farmhouse buried deep in the French Pyrenees, a garden to tend, and the
occasional job whipping up a passport or a visa to pay for her simple
lifestyle will do her fine.
John Valsamis could have been any tourist, a solitary American needing
directions in Nicole's empty corner of the world. But she knows he
isn't. From his briefcase Valsamis pulls a Red Notice, a document
reserved for people regarded by interpol as serious terrorist threats.
On the document is a face familiar to Nicole - Rahim Ali. They had
worked together and been lovers a decade earlier in Lisbon. Nicole does
not believe Rahim has turned to terrorism, yet Valsamis confronts her
with what looks like proof, along with intelligence of a planned major
terrorist strike. Rahim was last spotted in Lisbon and Valsamis wants
Nicole to track him down.
Nicole cannot resist the pull, the need to prove Valsamis wrong about
her former lover. Just a few days, she tells herself, a week at most.
She'll find him and clear things up and be back to her old routine. But
as the train slides south towards Lisbon's Santa Apolonia Station, she
begins to realise how foolish her expectations had been ... Alex Carr
grew up in Missoula, Montana. For much of her life, she has travelled
and worked her way around the world, starting as a prep-cook in the
scullery of a men's soup kitchen, through working in a fish cannery in
Alaska pulling salmon roe, to being a nude sketch model at an art museum
in Frankfurt. Her work, she says, has defined her and her writing.
