Gatekeeper - Philip Shelby

From the author of Days of Drums and Last Rights comes a new heartpounding thriller that's destined to be an international bestseller.

His name is the Handyman. For fifteen years he's been in hiding, living under an assumed name in a small foreign country, waiting to be called. Now, the call has come. Like Lazarus, he is coming back from the dead. The Handyman has a job to do.

Hollis Fremont works for the American Embassy in Paris. Beautiful, young, idealistic, she is still scarred from the assassination of her diplomat father when she was eight. Now, in the diplomatic corps herself, she is determined to put her tragic history behind her. And things look to get better when she's taken under the wing of Paul McGann - one of the most powerful men at the embassy. Handsome and debonair, Paul takes a personal interest in Holly's progress, and in Holly herself.

But all is not what it seems. When Paul asks Holly to run a simple diplomatic errand for him to New York, she sees no reason to refuse. But with that small consent starts a chain of events that will threaten the chain of command right up to the President himself, and Holly's own life is the smallest of bargaining chips. Racing against time, Holly must learn who she can trust, from her past as well as her future. The only person who seems on her side is Agent Sam Crawford, member of the mysterious Omega group, a renegade agency that hunts international assassins and answers only to the President. Together, they must find away to frustrate the Handyman in the biggest assignment of his bloody career.

Gripping, complex and absolutely riveting, this new international political thriller from the author of Days of Drums and Last Rights is guaranteed to please old fans and win Philip Shelby the thousands of new fans he deserves.