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The Protector
The secret weapon developed by the man Cavanaugh is assigned to protect is like Kryptonite to the former Delta Force officer turned security guard--it multiplies the effects of adrenaline, a hormone associated with fear, so it incapacitates instead of energizing him. A lot of people want Daniel Prescott's secret, but Cavanaugh, who's felt the drug's effects, wants his antidote. When Prescott disappears after causing the death of the Global Protective Services team charged with keeping him alive, Cavanaugh and his wife Jamie go after him in a high-speed chase that traps them between governmnt agents and foreign operatives each racing to find the scientist first and kill him before he can use his formula on them. Despite Prescott's double-dealing, and the bloody battle in a mountain redoubt that results in the deaths of his friends and colleagues, Cavanaugh knows the only way to banish the fear that may compromise his and Jamie's own safety is to track the elusive scientist to his last refuge. In this propulsive thriller, Morrell turns the tables so often that it's hard to separate the good guys from the bad ones, but that won't keep readers addicted to violence, treachery, and high-tech weaponry from staying with it to the last surprising chapter.
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Burnt Sienna
Ex-Marine Chase Malone has sworn never to take orders from anyone again. Now a famous artist, he has built a new, isolated life, and spends his days painting. But this idyllic existence is disrupted when billionaire arms merchant Derek Bellasar offers a huge commission for two portraits of his wife, Sienna. Malone has never accepted a commission, refusing to paint to another's dictates, and will make no exceptions. But Bellasar won't take no for an answer. Before long, Malone's beach has been bulldozed, his favourite restaurant closed, and the gallery displaying his works taken over. Confused and angry, Malone vows to get revenge. Then an old friend from the Marines asks him to take the commission. Jeb, now a CIA agent fighting Bellasar's ever-increasing power, sees this as his one chance to get close to him. It is also Sienna's one chance for survival. She doesn't know she is Bellasar's fourth wife, and that each of the other three died mysteriously in an accident immediately after her beauty had been immortalized by a renowned artist. Malone is quickly overwhelmed by Sienna. Saving her life and keeping her with him soon become his only goals. Once on the run, however, he finds that a woman as beautiful as Sienna is impossible to hide...
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Nightscape
The macabre contents of a crate become a fixation for the loyal servant who has vowed to protect it for his leader. A grief-ridden father is tormented by thoughts of avenging his murdered daughter. The relationship between a son and his father is turned on its head by startling advances in science. In each of the stories in this collection the twin themes of obsession and determination sound like a drumbeat. A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and strives grimly, despairingly, to carry it through