Secrets of State

By Damien Hunter

John Markham Cortland is the embodiment of Big Oil, a wealthy industrialist secretly smuggling arms and cocaine. Reaping billions in drug profits that dwarf even his oil empire, he compels American intelligence to turn a blind eye until he cultivates new clients in the Middle East. Leighton, an assassin with a checkered past in covert operations, is assigned to kill Cortland in Costa Rica as he vacations with his mistress. But when Leighton s escape plan mysteriously fails, he goes to ground as the agency sends an old flame in harm s way to smoke him out. Paula Grant carries the proof that Leighton s assignment was a rogue operation, but even she does not know if her true mission is to rescue him, or flush him before the guns of the agency s contract killers. Evading a nationwide manhunt, Leighton and Paula come to realize they threaten the forces that engineered Cortland s death, forces that have penetrated their own agency and arranged to sabotage the dead industrialist s promising synthetic fuel .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059530236X
• ISBN13: 9780595302369
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"