The new Risk Agent novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
Private security firm Rutherford Risk’s new client is a philanthropist with a headline-making cause: to locate and shut down an Amsterdam-based sweatshop that uses enslaved girls as forced labor. Enter import/export entrepreneur John Knox, with his former combat experience—and forensic accountant Grace Chu, who can trap and trace even the most sensitive financial information.
Working through the picturesque streets and canals of Amsterdam, Knox and Grace face Middle Eastern mobsters, the owner of a local brothel and police officers they don’t trust. Pursuing one young girl who holds the key to their investigation, but is either too afraid or in too deep to help them, they encounter the dark side of a secret world where would-be allies are enemies, and the victims themselves don’t want to be saved.
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Ridley Pearson is the author of more than two dozen crime novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Killer Summer, Killer View, and Probable Cause. He is also the author of the bestselling Lou Boldt crime series, and the young reader series The Kingdom Keepers. In 1990, Pearson was awarded the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship at Wadam College, Oxford. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson is back with a heart-stopping new installment in the acclaimed international thriller series featuring John Knox and Grace Chu. Filled with breathtaking suspense . . . Famous for his plotting and attention to details, Pearson is off to a great start with his compelling and multilayered new protagonists. -- Library Journal on The Risk Agent (starred review) When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a knot shop that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down. David Sarge Dulwich, John Knox's former boss from their government contractor days, knows that Knox's cultural knowledge, combat skills, and sympathy for the abused make him right for the job. Joined by Grace Chu, whose more subtle skills for acquiring sensitive tech information help balance his improvisational style, Knox heads to Amsterdam in an attempt to dismantle the child labor operation and rescue the girls. In their way is a crime organization that has permeated the neighborhoods with goodwill, turning even the victims' parents against their would-be saviors. With enemies around every corner, Knox and Grace can't tell the good from the bad. Seller Inventory # 00095712846
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Paperback. Condition: Good. New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson is back with a heart-stopping new installment in the acclaimed international thriller series featuring John Knox and Grace Chu. Filled with breathtaking suspense . . . Famous for his plotting and attention to details, Pearson is off to a great start with his compelling and multilayered new protagonists. -- Library Journal on The Risk Agent (starred review) When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a knot shop that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down. David Sarge Dulwich, John Knox's former boss from their government contractor days, knows that Knox's cultural knowledge, combat skills, and sympathy for the abused make him right for the job. Joined by Grace Chu, whose more subtle skills for acquiring sensitive tech information help balance his improvisational style, Knox heads to Amsterdam in an attempt to dismantle the child labor operation and rescue the girls. In their way is a crime organization that has permeated the neighborhoods with goodwill, turning even the victims' parents against their would-be saviors. With enemies around every corner, Knox and Grace can't tell the good from the bad. Seller Inventory # CIN0515154644G