THE SECOND COMING

THE SECOND COMING: Ransom Is Back, Book 3

It's 1956. Korea is three years cold, and a far colder war is rising in its place as Russia, China, and North Korea race toward the bomb. On America's western shore, the fear of mushroom clouds shares the front page with a bloodier, closer fight: the DeSimone and Cohen families carving up the streets of Los Angeles.

Zachary Ransom is twenty-six now, no longer the apprentice. Five years of training and missions have forged him into one of the most lethal weapons in the service of his country, and he carries the nightmares to prove it. He wants a quiet life in Malibu with Jenny, a little surf before the fog burns off, a morning that asks nothing of him. He gets none of it.

Because the ghost from his very first mission has come back to life. Fredrick Simonson buried his name, bought a new face as Hollywood financier Bruno Wagner, and spent fifteen years building a patient, poisonous plan. He wants more than wealth and power this time. He wants every last person who once tried to stop him, and he has the crime families, the money, and the long memory to get it.

When Simonson takes the one woman who ever made Zachary's life mean something, the hunt spills off the California coast and into the jungles and waterfalls of Jamaica, where doubles, decoys, and double-crosses turn every certainty inside out. Zachary is discovering he's capable of things no ordinary man should be. The question is whether it will be enough, or whether the devil he thought he killed has planned three moves ahead of him all along.

Some sins get a second chance. Some get a second coming.