FUGITIVE

Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, isback—in this twisting tale of international intrigue and murder thatleads her deep into the past . . . and into the crosshairs of a killer.Charlie Marsh, a petty thief and con man, becomes a national hero when herescues the warden of a state penitentiary during a prison riot, but itdoesn't take long before he is wanted again, suspected of killing a UnitedStates congressman. After twelve years of living in the African nation ofBatanga, at the mercy of Jean-Claude Baptiste, a sadistic, power-maddictator, Charlie flees for home to face his murder charge, when Baptistelearns about Charlie's affair with the tyrant's favorite wife. But it'snot just the state of Oregon that's got it in for the philandering con.Criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe has her work cut out for her. She must keepCharlie off death row, protect him from the head of Baptiste's deadlysecret police, and prevent him from being caught by a shadowy killer whowill stop at nothing to keep the truth about a decade-old crime buriedforever.