ldquoMunroe is a sensational character and Stevens is a sensational writerrdquo mdashLee Child New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series For fans of Lee Child Terry Hayes and Laura Lippman comes a blistering thriller in which Vanessa Michael Munroe faces the fight of her life Vanessa Michael Munroe chameleon and information hunter has a reputation for getting things done dangerous and not quite legal things that have taken her undercover into some of the worldrsquos deadliest places Still healing from a Somali hijacking gone wrong and a brutal attack that left her near death Munroe joins her lover Miles Bradford in Japan where hersquos working as a security consultant protecting high-value technology from industrial espionage In the domesticity of their routine she finds long sought-after peacemdashuntil Bradford is arrested for murder and the same interests who targeted him come after her too Searching for answers and fighting to stay alive Munroe will soon discover how far shersquoll go to save Bradford from spending the next twenty years in locked-up isolation how many laws shersquoll break when the truth seems worse than his lies and who to trust and who she must kill Because shersquos a strategist and hunter with a predatorrsquos instincts and the man she loves has just stabbed her in the back With break-neck pacing incendiary prose and an unforgettable cast of characters The Mask features Vanessa Michael Munroe a brilliant lethal heroine who will stop at nothing to find the truth no matter what it may cost ldquoStevens excels at depicting pulse-pounding danger and her prose and plotting are spectacular Only Dan Brown and Lee Child come closerdquo mdashDallas Morning News ldquoMunroe is a protagonist as deadly as she is irresistiblerdquo mdashVince Flynn ldquoIf you are a fan of Jack Reacher Lisbeth Salander or Nina Zero you need to check out Vanessa Michael Munroerdquo mdashBookPage ldquoA winning series character who has the world at her beck and callrdquo mdashLos Angeles Times ldquoMunroersquos brooding personality and her ability to blend into her surroundings bring to mind the provocative Jason Bournerdquo mdashUSA Today.