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TWENTY YEARS OFF THE GRID AND HE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE Pascual Rose is back-and this time the lives of his wife and son hang in the balance. Years ago, Rose put his life as a terrorist behind him. He sold out his colleagues for a new identity and low profile in Barcelona. All was quiet until he received a midnight text: Come join us on the terrace. The stakes are high: if he fails, it will cost him his family; if he succeeds, one million euros will buy a lot more than translation piecework will. But the money-laundering scheme involves a nexus of diverted revenues, shell companies and cryptocurrencies, peopled by shadowy benefactors, Russian mobsters, German intelligence agents, and a mysterious woman with a chilling warning: Get out before it's too late. Rose races against time, navigating twists and turns and mortal danger knowing no one can be trusted and nothing is happenstance. Can he uncover who is behind the operation that has the potential to destroy entire governments and global financial markets before he loses everything?

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"""At the start of Martell's exhilarating fourth novel featuring former terrorist Pascual Rose (after 2001's Gitana), two uninvited guests, who call themselves Felix and Lina, arrive at Pascual's home in the small Catalonian town where he has been living under a false name with his family for 20 years. Felix and Lina offer Pascual, who gets by as a freelance translator, a million euros to pose as a rich businessman with money to transfer. Since the pair threaten to kill Pascual's wife and son unless he cooperates, he agrees to the terms. Pascual travels to various places in Europe, where he connects with the mysterious Artemisa Pereda, who unveils an international web of deceit and corruption possibly involving multiple nations. Pascual must later place his faith in the hands of cybersecurity technician Fernando Salera to help navigate a world in which no phone, credit card, or camera is safe from surveillance and hacking. Some convoluted plot lines resolve as Pascual and his accomplices head through treacherous waters toward the satisfying ending. Readers will hope they won't have to wait another 19 years for Pascual's next adventure."" -Publishers Weekly ""Martell brings Pascual into the 21st century-older and wiser yet once again coerced into international skullduggery at the peril of exposure for the sins of his past. This time, he's party to a money-laundering scheme, jet setting from one tax haven to another, at every turn trying to stay one step ahead of his handlers, sensing they will soon have little need of him and his unique 'qualifications' for the job-and that what he knows will become a fatal liability."" -BookTrib"

At the start of Martell's exhilarating fourth novel featuring former terrorist Pascual Rose (after 2001's Gitana), two uninvited guests, who call themselves Felix and Lina, arrive at Pascual's home in the small Catalonian town where he has been living under a false name with his family for 20 years. Felix and Lina offer Pascual, who gets by as a freelance translator, a million euros to pose as a rich businessman with money to transfer. Since the pair threaten to kill Pascual's wife and son unless he cooperates, he agrees to the terms. Pascual travels to various places in Europe, where he connects with the mysterious Artemisa Pereda, who unveils an international web of deceit and corruption possibly involving multiple nations. Pascual must later place his faith in the hands of cybersecurity technician Fernando Salera to help navigate a world in which no phone, credit card, or camera is safe from surveillance and hacking. Some convoluted plot lines resolve as Pascual and his accomplices head through treacherous waters toward the satisfying ending. Readers will hope they won't have to wait another 19 years for Pascual's next adventure. -Publishers Weekly Martell brings Pascual into the 21st century-older and wiser yet once again coerced into international skullduggery at the peril of exposure for the sins of his past. This time, he's party to a money-laundering scheme, jet setting from one tax haven to another, at every turn trying to stay one step ahead of his handlers, sensing they will soon have little need of him and his unique 'qualifications' for the job-and that what he knows will become a fatal liability. -BookTrib

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DOMINIC MARTELL was born in the United States and has spent most of his life there, but he has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He has worked as a teacher and a translator. The first three novels featuring repentant ex-terrorist Pascual Rose appeared in the 1990s, chronicling Pascual's quest for atonement in the chaotic early years of the post-Cold War period. A quarter of a century later, in the transformed landscape of the even more chaotic post-9/11 digitally connected world, Martell began to wonder what had become of Pascual and decided to bring him out of retirement. Kill Chain is the first of Pascual's 21st-century misadventures.

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