Walking Dead Book

In this explosive new thriller, Greg Rucka, the acclaimed author of Shooting at Midnight and Patriot Acts, sets bodyguard-turned-international-fugitive Atticus Kodiak on a one-man crusade where being willing to die for your ideals isnâ??t enough. You have to be willing to do much worse.â?¦I will take your place in times of danger. As an ex-bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak knew the sentiment well. Heâ??d once based his career on it. Now it could cost him more than just his livelihoodâ??more than even his life. For as he wakes to the sound of gunfire, the nightmare is about to begin again.Atticus knew very well that people came to a place like Kobuleti to hide. After all, thatâ??s why he and Alena Cizkova had come to the secluded Georgian town in the former U.S.S.R. But Atticus never asked his friend and neighbor Bakhar Lagidze why he was in Kobuleti or what he might be hiding from. Now itâ??s too late. Bakhar and his family have been brutally murdered, and the thuggish local police chief has declared it a murder-suicide. Everyoneâ??even Alenaâ??seems satisfied to leave it at that.Except for Atticus.He knows what the police wonâ??t acknowledge: that one person survived the bloodbath in the Lagidze householdâ??their fourteen-year-old daughter. And the nightmare sheâ??s about to experience will make her wish sheâ??d died with the rest. To rescue her Atticus must enter a web that takes him from Russia to Istanbul, that stretches from Dubai to Las Vegas. But what troubles Atticus the most is that Alenaâ??once one of the worldâ??s most dangerous assassins and a woman who fears nothingâ??is clearly terrified of what heâ??s uncovered. And as Atticus gets closer to learning why, the closer he gets to destroying the life they have made, and each other.Read More