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Writer Jack Walsh, an admitted neanderthal and proud curmudgeon, is approached with a very unique and dangerous proposition -- to write the biography of Lilith, the most proliferate and cold-hearted contract assassin in the world. Her pitch is tantalizing, a sure best-seller, but he's not a biographer, he's a noir police mystery writer. She's determined that he is the best man for the job and eventually convinces him to take on the project. For the next year, he and his research assistant, David Wharton, fly to various far-flung locations around the globe to meet with her and do their deep-probing research for the book. They encounter the deadly world that she lives in -- horrifying, disturbing and deadly. But Jack, as he digs deeper and deeper into her soul, finds as much about his own in the process and once engaged, cannot be dissuaded.Lilith's motive for having her biography written is shrouded in mystery. She is perfectly deadly, meticulous, precise, has no specific motus-operandi, strikes without warning and leaves no trace behind. She's never been photographed and only ever seen by two who have lived to tell about it. David insists that she's inhuman, a cancer. Various law enforcement agencies from around the world and former clients who wish to keep their association with her secret, realize that their best opportunity to find her is to follow Jack and David. Despite the precautions that they take and the protection that she renders, each meeting becomes more and more perilous and deadly. From their homes in northern Vermont to New York, London, Oslo, Vladayvostok, Paris, Bangkok, Vancouver and a tiny, terrorist-infested village in western Nigeria, they are hunted and tracked. If not for a mysterious "guardian angel," their lives could have been lost on many occasions.Through it all, they keep asking themselves if it was all worth it. For the book? Perhaps. For the life-changing revelation of his own failings and the humanity of it all, absolutely. In the end they ponder if they have any regrets. The illumination of the answer to that question -- and the reasons for it -- prove whether the worth of the risks they'd take -- or not."One Kill: Hunting Lilith" is a relentless, fast-paced adventure filled with intricately woven plots, mysteries, disturbing images and hidden agendas. Spies, law enforcement agents, so many people and things that just aren't what they appear to be and the gruesome reality that, for some, life is cheap. Like being frozen with fear as one stares into the cold, dead eyes of a snake that, at any moment, could strike and kill without warning -- or reason. All of which sprinkled with Jack Walsh's signature sarcasm and cave-man approach to anyone and everyone around him and David Wharton's sideways editorial comments and thinly-veiled insults. A tale of love, hate, life, death and life-altering fear.And the dark and mysterious L mdearg all the time watching and waiting as the perennial puppet-masters that they are.
