After the recent death of her mother, Karen Whitlaw receives a strange package from her long absent father, and just files it away with the rest of her mother's personal effects. She is the unwitting recipient of her father's "Kill Book," which details the CIA-sanctioned hits he performed going all the way back to the Vietnam War. A phone call from a detective in New Orleans brings Karen to the big easy, to claim the body of her murdered father.
Detective Marc Chastain knows that there is something fishy about his latest murder case. It is a homeless man, but appears more like a professional hit. His investigation into the crime results in some inquires from the local feds.
Not really ready to understand her feelings about her estranged father, Marc figures Karen to be an ice queen, as she appears remote. At first kind of brisk with her, he soon is attracted to her. After a night of hot sex (his seduction on the balcony is one of the better Howard trysts), Karen flees back to the safety of her home in Ohio.
Then more accidents start to happen. She returns to New Orleans and to Marc, as she feels he is the only one she can trust, and the two join together to try to piece together her father's past and realizing that the murderer is after the package she has in storage.
This story also introduces John Medina, a shadowy CIA-operative who plays a minor but pivotal role (and later gets his own in All the Queen's Men), as Marc and Karen try to beat the clock to locate the piece of evidence that will help to solve the crime.
Detective Marc Chastain knows that there is something fishy about his latest murder case. It is a homeless man, but appears more like a professional hit. His investigation into the crime results in some inquires from the local feds.
Not really ready to understand her feelings about her estranged father, Marc figures Karen to be an ice queen, as she appears remote. At first kind of brisk with her, he soon is attracted to her. After a night of hot sex (his seduction on the balcony is one of the better Howard trysts), Karen flees back to the safety of her home in Ohio.
Then more accidents start to happen. She returns to New Orleans and to Marc, as she feels he is the only one she can trust, and the two join together to try to piece together her father's past and realizing that the murderer is after the package she has in storage.
This story also introduces John Medina, a shadowy CIA-operative who plays a minor but pivotal role (and later gets his own in All the Queen's Men), as Marc and Karen try to beat the clock to locate the piece of evidence that will help to solve the crime.
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