Echo of an Ex

by David Machado

J.J. McCrae is heartbroken. Though he comes from one of the most deadly families in America it was not enough to save his first great love. Another highly skilled and infinitely more ruthless man took J.J.'s wife and brutally murdered her on a cold mountain pass. He wanted revenge. He got it. It wasn't enough. McCrae, along with the help of his family, began a worldwide search for the killer. That man hid in the shadowy recesses of the earth, in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Near East. The man proved elusive. Year pass, and now J.J. is settled in Portland, Oregon, struggling to get on with his life. He has used his very specialized set of skills as a former operator in the army's Delta Force to open up a small, two-man detective agency with his brother Matthew, a former member of SEAL Team Six. But the heart heals slowly. The past yet echoes in J.J.'s life. He remembers his first great love often-her blue eyes, her blond hair, that English accent. And that man was finished. He'd demonstrated even more patience than when he'd been the sniper in J.J.'s counterterrorist troop. He still blames J.J. for what happened during their last operation in Sierra Leone during Operation Barras. And he was out to get him. Again. The wait is over. The time has come. Proper sight picture, make adjustments, inhale, hold it and shoot between heartbeats. He takes the shot. It echoes...like the past.

512 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 13, 2012

About the author

David Machado nasceu em Lisboa em 1978. É autor do romance O Fabuloso Teatro do Gigante e do livro de contos Histórias Possíveis. Em 2005, o seu conto infantil A Noite dos Animais Inventados recebeu o Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca, da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e do jornal Expresso, e desde então publicou mais três contos para crianças, Os Quatro Comandantes da Cama Voadora, Um Homem Verde num Buraco muito Fundo e O Tubarão na Banheira, distinguido com o Prémio Autor SPA/RTP 2010 de Melhor Livro Infanto-Juvenil. Tem livros publicados em Itália e Marrocos e contos presentes em antologias e revistas literárias em Itália, Alemanha, Noruega, Reino Unido, Islândia e Marrocos. Traduziu os livros O Herói das Mulheres, de Adolfo Bioy Casares, e Obrigada pelo Lume, de Mario Benedetti.