Clara Rinker is a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner. She's also the best hitwoman in the business. Lucas Davenport should know - she almost killed him.
That was then and this is now. Clara is retired and living in Mexico with her boyfriend, the son of a local drug lord, and for the first time in her life, she's happy. But when her boyfriend is killed by a bullet that was meant for her, Clara is understandably angry. And when Clara Rinker gets mad, people get hurt.
It's up to Lucas Davenport to stop the bloodbath but between Clara, her old bosses in the St Louis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, arms of US law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. And when the shooting starts, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance . . .
