Man on Fire - Creasy, Bk 1 Author:A. J. Quinnell Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. — An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until... more » the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.
Two different films based on this book, one in 1987, one in 2004« less