Fighting Shadows
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Last published Wed, May 30, 2018
Have you ever thought what the price of success is for some people?
Rene Fox faces a ruthless traitor and a ghost-criminal, who are determined not to let her survive. While she pursues them from London to Tokyo, she is threatened by the only person who could actually kill her, as well as by the possibility of losing the most important person in her life.
I'm the heat of this hide-and-seek in the shadows, Daniel Goldman is tormented by an inconcievable dilemma: to stay loyal to his duties and his morals as the CIA's director, or keep the woman he loves?
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