Vanessa Michael Munroe, the informationist, chameleon, and hunter who has built her life on a reputation for getting things done-often dangerous and not-quite-legal things-returns in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling series by Taylor Stevens.
TAYLOR STEVENS is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist, The Innocent and The Doll. Featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, the series has received critical acclaim and the books are published in twenty languages. The Informationist has been optioned for film by James Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. Born in New York State, and into the Children of God, raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond sixth grade, Stevens was in her twenties when she broke free to follow hope and a vague idea of what possibilities lay beyond. She now lives in Texas, and is at work on the next Munroe novel.
“A great page-turning choice for a read-it-in-one-sitting airplane
ride or lazy afternoon on the back porch…The novel transports
readers to another world, giving a solid dose of action-adventure
and a kick-butt female protagonist. The Catch…is a great escape.”
—Star-Telegram
“The writer makes her protagonist more empathetic and likable than
ever — startlingly so, because the Michael (her preferred name)
Munroe we see here is at her most focused, ruthless and emotionally
distant. It’s a difficult balancing act, but one that Stevens pulls
off with her usual wit, precision and grace… [An] exceptional
novel.” —Dallas Morning News
“Think Catwoman in plain clothes. Lisbeth Salander sans dragon
tattoo. Jack Reacher with an extra X-chromosome. Whatever—Vanessa
Michael Munroe has to be among the cleverest, fightingest and
all-around baddest heroines in contemporary suspense fiction. …A
straight-up adventure tale about a woman who thinks on her feet
(that is, when she is not using them to kick bad-guy booty) and
always stays one step ahead of her adversaries. My prediction: This
will be one of the summer’s most popular beach reads.”
—BookPage
"This writer is fabulous and the characterizations are thrilling...
You get what you see, and that includes the cleverness, the grit,
and the pain. A definite keeper!” —Suspense Magazine
“Taylor Stevens continues her saga of Vanessa Michael Munroe, begun
in The Informationist, with a fast-paced action thriller that
vividly shows why Munroe is probably the best new action
hero.” —Huntington News
“Thriller fans will immediately be sucked into this life-or-death
tale as Stevens’s fast-paced plot and indomitable and
justice-driven heroine keep the pages turning.” —Library
Journal
“This action-adventure thriller moves along at breakneck speed with
the requisite violence peppering most of the pages. Munroe is a
smart, fiercely strong, yet damaged woman in the vein of Lisbeth
Salander, and she could hold her own with Robert Ludlum’s Jason
Bourne or Barry Eisler’s Rain. For fans of high-energy action.”
—Booklist
“Munroe makes for an intriguing action hero, and the fight scenes
are refreshingly stark and well paced.” —Publishers Weekly
“Stevens resurrects Vanessa “Michael” Munroe, her dangerous,
androgynous antihero, for another dark adventure…Fans of the series
like that Stevens’ writing takes them to little-known places and
offers glimpses into the day-to-day life of the economically
developing world. Stevens continues her spare, gritty approach to
storytelling, which has made Munroe one of the genre’s most
compelling characters, in this latest installment of the haunted
heroine’s troubled life.” —Kirkus
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