Cat's Game

The rules are Trust no one. Stay alive.Children playing in a public park find the body of a man stuffed beneath the spreading boughs of a spruce tree, and the case is assigned to newly promoted homicide detective Daniel Archer.The victim, a seemingly unremarkable accountant, was living a double life—one that put him in the crosshairs of powerful players who don’t take kindly to betrayal. A missing file. A fortune hidden in plain sight. And a trail of bodies that all lead back to a ruthless underground empire.Detective Archer is joined in his investigation by an ambitious but ruthless FBI agent who seems to have a hidden agenda of his own. A former Marine turned detective, Archer has seen his share of bloodshed, but nothing prepares him for the game he’s about to play—where every move could be his last.His investigation into the first mysterious death leads only to more questions and no answers, until a gruesome second murder puts him onto the trail of a Central American drug cartel.As his investigation deepens Archer is led to a beautiful dark-haired woman who may hold all the answers he is looking for. As he pursues her, he finds himself falling for her against his every instinct, but as his search intensifies, he begins to suspect that she is at the epicenter of it all. Caught in a hall of mirrors where nothing is clear, and no one is who they seem, will she become his lover? Or will she lead him to his death?A third murder puts Archer on the trail of a deadly and cunning assassin, with whom Archer has more in common than he realizes. It will take all his skills as a former Marine combat veteran to survive.