Exit Strategy - Nick Mason

Zusatztext 47860730 Informationen zum Autor Steve Hamilton  is the  New York Times –bestselling author of twelve novels! most recently  The Second Life of Nick Mason and Die a Stranger .  His debut!  A Cold Day in Paradise !   won both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His standalone novel  The Lock Artist  was a  New York Times  Notable Crime Book and won an Alex Award and the Edgar Award for Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan! where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing! and now lives in Cottekill! New York! with his wife and their two children. Klappentext In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason! the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life! as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC! the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised! locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life! and kill them. But first he has to find them-they're ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified "deep black" locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them-and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction! and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify! Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed! he will walk out a free man. As he risks everything to complete his mission! Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced! the ruthless assassin who once served! then betrayed! Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim! he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself. In an action-packed journey that leads from a high-security military installation in the Appalachian Mountains to a secret underground bunker hidden far below the streets of New York City! Nick Mason will have to become! more than ever before! the lethal weapon that Darius Cole created. 1 You kill one person, it changes you. You kill five . . . it’s not about changing anymore. It’s who you are. Quintero knew this. He’d seen it in other men. Had seen it in himself. He saw it now as he watched Nick Mason prepare, remembering the day he picked him up at the gates of the federal prison in Terre Haute. Remembering Mason’s first job, in the motel room. The look on his face afterward—blank, bloodless—when he brought the Mustang to the chop shop. When he said he’d never do it again. Until the next phone call. That was the unwritten contract Nick Mason had signed. Twenty years of his life back in exchange for his service to Darius Cole. On call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. To do whatever was asked of him. No matter what it was. Mason stripped off his shirt to reveal the lean, hard muscles of a welterweight and pale white skin with no tattoos. Even after five and a half years inside, he had come out without one drop of jailhouse ink on his body. Cole had made sure of it. Mason strapped on the soft armor tactical vest, thick enough to stop anything up to a .44 Magnum, then he pulled on the black turtleneck over that. With the black pants, the black rubber-soled shoes, it was the uniform of a professional. He took the black balaclava, formed it into a skullcap, and put it on over his close-cut hair. He pulled down the mask, adjusted it across his eyes, took one look in the mirror. Satisfied, he rolled it back up. Quintero took the black canvas bag from his shoulder and put it down on the table. Mason unzipped the bag and looked inside. “Everything you’ll need is in there,” Quint...

Product details

• Authors: Steve Hamilton
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780399574382
• ISBN: 978-0-399-57438-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: A Nick Mason Novel; Nick Mason Novel; A Nick Mason Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage