Ice Cold Kill - Hardcover

Haynes, Dana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250009634 ISBN 13: 9781250009630

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2013

Synopsis

"Grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go until the final page!" ―Nelson DeMille on Crashers

Daria Gibron is a woman with a deadly past and an uncertain future. A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., she works primarily as an interpreter. But Daria is a thrill junkie who can't resist the occasional freelance job as an operative―a habit that has left her with a trail of corpses behind her, and a few still living, very dangerous, high-powered enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge.

En route to an impromptu meeting with an old contact from her days in the Israeli Secret Service, Daria gets an unexpected and anonymous tipoff that she's about to walk into an ambush. Unsure who is after her, or why, she slips away from her followers and soon learns that she's been set up―and set up good. Someone has linked her to a much sought-after terrorist, and now all the resources of the U.S. intelligence community are being marshaled against her.

As she tries to escape the ever-tightening snare laid out for her, someone else is using the operation against her as a distraction to hijack a very dangerous, highly guarded shipment. Now the only person who can keep this shipment from falling into terrorist hands is the one person they chose to set up as a diversion. Daria Gibron is many things―trigger-happy, resourceful, focused, and extremely dangerous ―but the one thing she isn't is anybody's fool.

Ice Cold Kill is an espionage spy thriller from Dana Haynes.

About this title

About the Author

DANA HAYNES spent more than twenty years as a journalist and editor at several newspapers in Oregon before working as the Public Affairs Manager for Portland Community College. He is the author of the acclaimed thrillers Crashers, Breaking Point, Ice Cold Kill, and Gun Metal Heart. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the communications director for the city's mayor.

Reviews

*Starred Review* After shedding her skin as a Shin Bet operative, Daria Gibron is happily juggling double lives in the U.S., shrewdly masking an FBI covert ops gig with her cover as a high-demand interpreter. Past experience has taught her that it’s dangerous to get comfortable, however, and she’s barely surprised when a meeting with an undercover operative friend morphs into an elaborate frame-up. Cast as a rogue agent providing arms for Syrian Khalid Belhadj’s alleged plot to assassinate the U.S. president, Daria finds her American alliances instantly destroyed when she’s red-lighted by the CIA. After a bit of spying reveals the set-up’s mastermind as a cunning Israeli operative seemingly resurrected from the dead, it’s clear that she’s being used as a distraction from a larger plot that’s completely off the CIA’s radar. Dodging various well-armed international intelligence groups, Daria teams with Belhadj, albeit uneasily, to track the terrorists. Haynes steers the array of heavy themes (Arab Spring, biological weapons, child soldiers, and secret societies) into a strong, complicated plot as believable as any real-life terrorist threat. Daria is destined to become a favorite in the growing arsenal of female thriller leads. She combines brains and experience to craft unbeatable strategy, and she has the requisite combat skills to quash any agent in her path as well as a witty, moderately well-adjusted (under the circumstances) perspective that’s sure to charm. --Christine Tran

Edition details

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250009634
• ISBN 13: 9781250009630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352