The Republic of Night

Pascual Rose, elite counterterrorist turned deep-cover informant, is back in this turbulent new international thriller. The pace is compelling and suspense breathtaking in this masterly neo-noir sequel to Lying Crying Dying. From the outset, when an over-friendly Frenchman--and total stranger--accosts the down-and-out Pascual in an empty church, deep menace lurks behind apparent danger. Nonetheless, $100,000 and the threat of deadly exposure lure Pascual from portside Barcelona, where he has been hiding from his counterterrorist past, to the banking precincts of Paris, where he again confronts it. Hired by French intelligence to finger a onetime comrade and now entrepreneur in global terrorism, Pascual finds himself hurled into Algerian factional warfare, and worse--the machinations of a faceless cadre that acknowledges no borders, or bounds.