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Potential to kill
Meg Faraday finds her old skills called on – as an ex-Major in Army Intelligence – when a senior (and millionaire) British MP begs for her help after his 19-year-old son joins a cult and runs off to San Francisco. Because the problem with the cult is that – at least, so rumour has it – it practises human sacrifice.
The dilemma: Is Miles Trapp, the MP’s son, going to be the sacrifice…or the slayer?
Trapp Sr gets impatient while Meg goes under cover in London. She has her reasons. Meg finds – and joins – the cult. Yet however patient she is at establishing trust with them, she can never be certain whether they truly accept her as a follower…especially after she gets followed by car. And more especially after a London street fight in which Meg beats off two attacking men, each twice her size.
Using old contacts, Meg drives to Paris, then flies not to San Francisco – but to LA, where she teams up with tough, cynical, black news reporter Will McKinley. With Will at her shoulder, she traces evidence that the human-sacrifice story is true…
Next move: into the enemy camp. Meg rejoins the cult in San Francisco. She convinces them – or appears to – to trust her enough to take her to the cult’s real base, in the remote Arizona desert. And the first person she finds there is Miles. But Miles has been brainwashed. How is Meg to bring him to his senses and get them both out of there?
Their chaotic escape lands them back into a different sort of danger: the cult’s suited, respectable front people have a scam of their own going. All Meg’s old skills and quick wit are called into play as she thwarts one danger after another to frustrate first the cult, then the scammers.
But not before she has come across revelations that shock even her. And not before the cult very nearly uses her for its next sacrifice…with Miles as the intended slayer.
The dilemma: Is Miles Trapp, the MP’s son, going to be the sacrifice…or the slayer?
Trapp Sr gets impatient while Meg goes under cover in London. She has her reasons. Meg finds – and joins – the cult. Yet however patient she is at establishing trust with them, she can never be certain whether they truly accept her as a follower…especially after she gets followed by car. And more especially after a London street fight in which Meg beats off two attacking men, each twice her size.
Using old contacts, Meg drives to Paris, then flies not to San Francisco – but to LA, where she teams up with tough, cynical, black news reporter Will McKinley. With Will at her shoulder, she traces evidence that the human-sacrifice story is true…
Next move: into the enemy camp. Meg rejoins the cult in San Francisco. She convinces them – or appears to – to trust her enough to take her to the cult’s real base, in the remote Arizona desert. And the first person she finds there is Miles. But Miles has been brainwashed. How is Meg to bring him to his senses and get them both out of there?
Their chaotic escape lands them back into a different sort of danger: the cult’s suited, respectable front people have a scam of their own going. All Meg’s old skills and quick wit are called into play as she thwarts one danger after another to frustrate first the cult, then the scammers.
But not before she has come across revelations that shock even her. And not before the cult very nearly uses her for its next sacrifice…with Miles as the intended slayer.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 16, 2015
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