Dead or Alive

It was meant to be another simple job.

All professional bounty hunter Eli Varrick has to do is set up the target, squeeze the trigger and escape the area as silently and unobtrusively as he had arrived.

He does the job and slips quietly away. It’s plain sailing for a hitman as professional as Eli.

Another successful $40,000 payday and soon he will be safely home at his caretaker’s job in Edinburgh.

But he doesn’t count on the hunter becoming the hunted. He finds that the CIA bosses he thought he was working for in war torn Bosnia have no knowledge of the planned killing.

Their website has been hacked and Eli has been set up by Amel Dugalic, money man for several local warlords who he is playing off one against the other.

After narrowly escaping a bomb attack on his hotel room, Eli finds he is a man on the run with no one to turn to.

He is without passport, money or weapons.

Fellow paid assassin and former lover, the sexually charged La Donna, reluctantly agrees to help but he soon finds she has other more dangerous agendas…

Naked, drugged and shackled to La Donna’s bed, Eli plunges deeper into a terrifying world where no one is who they seem and every friend is a foe.

Salvation appears to come in the form of a seductive English teacher and Afghanistan veteran, the delicious Jelly, for whom he takes risky high dives off rocky cliffs and braves a sniper’s bullets.

The only hope is that his CIA boss has a change of heart and will come to his rescue in time as he and Jelly head for Venice…

Dean Carson’s fast-paced tale of an honourable bounty hunter is a thrilling ride with a cliff-hanging moment at the end of every chapter.

Dean Carson is the pen name of an Irish journalist, a professional magician, ventriloquist and hypnotist who trained as a physicist before working for a decade for a daily paper and writing the top selling non-fiction book Family Feud – Gangland Limerick Exposed, an account of the Limerick drug war that also become the most shoplifted book in Ireland. Other true crime books followed, as well as ghost-writing two memoirs. He writes factual books under his own name and fiction under a variety of pen names, including Jim Gallows and Dean Carson. He lives in the south of Ireland with two children and five rats and includes in his other written works Teach Yourself Magic and a guide to public speaking.

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