Sideswiped: A Rex Dalton Thriller

Rex and Digger are visiting the Taj Mahal when he nearly bumps into someone from his past. Josh Farley, a CRC agent, and with him a woman Rex doesn't know.Are they looking for Rex, on some other mission, or on holiday?Rex doesn't have a good feeling about it. Cops, spooks, soldiers, military analysts, and many others don't believe in coincidence, and neither does he.It is time for him and Digger to get out of India. Rex decides to take a trip to Thailand, where he is planning to undergo cosmetic surgery to change his looks to hide from the people in his past.Thailand is known as 'The Land of Smiles' and Rex finds that it is an appropriate moniker, especially so when he meets his Thai language teacher, Sunstra. Her name means 'girl with beautiful eyes'.Right from the beginning there are good vibes between them and they become fast friends and before long there is a romance in the making. But then things seldom work out they way they are planned. Sunstra disappears when a tsunami devastates the southern part of the country where she is visiting her family.Rex and Digger try to find her. But then her family receives a ransom demand. She is alive but she not going to remain alive for long if her father doesn't sign the papers to sell his land.Rex and Digger have to race against time to rescue her before she is killed, but Sunstra's family is not very cooperative.