Virtuosic Spy

Conor McBride. A man with deadly skills he never wanted to learn. That doesn't mean he won't use them. For the Irish, family is everything. Their loyalty to each other is unbreakable, but Conor McBride thought he had reached its limit. He'd spent years trying to undo the damage of a betrayal that humiliated him, ended his career, and nearly landed him in prison for a crime he never committed. The man responsible for it all disappeared long ago. Conor never thought of searching for him, but now a secretive stranger from London has traveled to his farm in the west of Ireland asking him to do exactly that. Wanting to refuse but knowing he can't, Conor accepts a job he doesn't want, acquiring deadly skills he never wanted to learn. He's an ordinary man, but before long he will hardly recognize himself. He will disappear into a ruthless new identity on the tumultuous streets of India, joining allies he doesn't trust in a dangerous game without rules. He will learn to shoot, lie, steal and smother his humanity under layers of tradecraft, all in service to the one goal of finding the man who took everything from him – his brother, Thomas McBride. Thomas has one last chance for redemption, and Conor will do whatever it takes to find him before it's too late. Because the bond between brothers goes on forever, even after betrayal. Family is everything.

An Irishman on the run. He's left a lot of things behind him...but they're not far enough back. Conor McBride has lost everything, and if he can't find a way to disappear in a hurry, the next thing he loses could be his life. Running from enemies he's never met and haunted by his own destructive actions, Conor needs a refuge secure enough to hold his secrets. A farmhouse inn tucked amidst the green mountains of Vermont seems ideal, but when his past catches up with him, Conor discovers the beautiful young innkeeper has secrets of her own, and hers are more likely to get them both killed.

An Iranian, a Bohemian, and an Irishman walk into a bar. It's not a joke. It's Conor McBride's latest mission. Conor McBride has accepted a bargain he may live to regret, if he gets to live at all. Lured by the chance to resume his career as a violinist, he's agreed to extract a defecting Iranian from Prague. He's been promised a simple, stitched-up mission, but as he might have expected, it unravels into chaos as soon as he arrives. The Iranian has endangered his own life with a shocking indiscretion; a suspicious MI6 agent is hatching a plan that could start an international crisis; a mystery stranger is tailing Conor's every move; and he has less than a week to master a sonata he hasn't looked at in years. As if that weren't enough, the partner he's brought with him is a freshly trained operative he couldn't persuade to stay home. Conor hopes his relationship with Kate Chatham is on track to become a different sort of partnership, but his desire to shield her from the covert part of his life was no match for her determination to share in its risks. Working together, they soon discover the fabled lanes of Prague are not half as twisted as the secrets everyone is hiding. Exposing them won't be easy...or safe.