<b><b>"Munroe is a sensational character and Stevens is a sensational writer." - Lee Child, </b><i>New York Times</i><b> bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series</b></b><br><b> </b><br> <b>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</b><br><b> </b><br>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 world's 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 he's working as a security consultant protecting high-value technology from industrial espionage. In the domesticity of their routine she finds long sought-after peace - until Bradford is arrested for murder, and the same interests who targeted him come after her, too.<br> Searching for answers and fighting to stay alive, Munroe will soon discover how far she'll go to save Bradford from spending the next twenty years in locked-up isolation; how many laws she'll break when the truth seems worse than his lies; and who to trust and who she must kill. Because she's a strategist and hunter with a predator's instincts, and the man she loves has just stabbed her in the back. <br> With break-neck pacing, incendiary prose, and an unforgettable cast of characters, <i>The Mask</i> features Vanessa Michael Munroe: a brilliant, lethal heroine who will stop at nothing to find the truth, no matter what it may cost. <br><br> <br> "Stevens excels at depicting pulse-pounding danger, and her prose and plotting are spectacular. . . . Only Dan Brown and Lee Child come close." - <i>Dallas Morning News</i><br> <br> "[Munroe is] a protagonist as deadly as she is irresistible." - Vince Flynn<br> <br> "If you are a fan of Jack Reacher, Lisbeth Salander, or Nina Zero, you need to check out Vanessa Michael Munroe!" - <i>BookPage</i><br> <br> "A winning series character who has the world at her beck and call." - <i>Los Angeles Times<br></i><br> "Munroe's brooding personality and her ability to blend into her surroundings bring to mind the provocative Jason Bourne." - <i>USA Today</i>
