The Illegal Man

To his friends and neighbors in Atlanta, John Benson was a solid citizen -- owner of a successful sporting goods store and a devoted family man. Then a car bomb meant for him destroyed that carefully crafted life and set Benson off on a frantic search to find out what had happened to his missing wife and daughter, and for the people who wanted him dead. Was it Hiram Welles, owner of a chain of rival sporting goods stores who had tried to buy Benson out, and would not take no for an answer? Was it the post-Communist Russian KGB, looking for Alexei Antonovitch Koslovski, the computer expert spy they had placed in the US who had gone missing, supposedly with a large amount of cash? Or was it another figure from his previous life, whose very existence was unknown to him, but who knew exactly who Benson was?