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Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen, already having accumulated more insight and secrets than the most seasoned professionals in her world. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son, Luke, and her mentor, Hu Chang. When Luke was kidnapped at the age of two, it nearly broke her. Now, nine years later, her son has astonishingly been returned to her and Catherine vows never to fail him again. But when her job pulls her away from home, she relies on the brilliant and deadly Hu Chang to safeguard Luke in her absence.Now Erin Sullivan, an American journalist with mysterious ties to Hu Chang, has been kidnapped in Tibet.
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Iris Johansen is a bestselling author. She began her writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels, starting with the publication of . In 1996 Johansen switched genres, turning to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She lives in Georgia and is married. Her son, , is an Edgar Award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Her daughter, Tamara, serves as her research assistant. IRIS JOHANSEN is The bestselling author of , and more. And with her son, Roy Johansen, she has coauthored and
