#1 bestselling author Todd Babiak “reinvents thrillers” in this heart-stopping Christopher Kruse novel (Edmonton Journal)
To save his marriage, security agent Christopher Kruse took his family on a sabbatical in the south of Mitterrand-era France. Instead of finding romance, in Come Barbarians Kruse entered a web of political deceit and murder, resulting in the tragic deaths of his wife and young daughter. Haunted by loss and regret, and now bound by a contract with the unscrupulous mayor of Paris, he remains in France. There, he keeps a watchful eye over a Parisian woman and her daughter, so like his own, whose lives have grown entangled with his.
When a grenade attack in the Jewish quarter injures the mayor and kills a charismatic politician on the rise, Kruse is catapulted back into the maelstrom of organized crime and dirty politics. Zoé, a young woman working for a shadowy division of the French clandestine services, hires Kruse and his old colleague and mentor, Tzvi, to hunt down the leader of the attack. The mission leads him not to redemption but down a rabbit hole of deception and violence, and into an unlikely affair.
As extreme politics, the rise of terror and globalization threaten Europe, Kruse must determine where the danger lies, not only to protect a country that has failed him but to save what’s left of himself.
#1 bestselling author Todd Babiak “reinvents thrillers” in this heart-stopping Christopher Kruse novel (Edmonton Journal)
To save his marriage, security agent Christopher Kruse took his family on a sabbatical in the south of Mitterrand-era France. Instead of finding romance, in Come Barbarians Kruse entered a web of political deceit and murder, resulting in the tragic deaths of his wife and young daughter. Haunted by loss and regret, and now bound by a contract with the unscrupulous mayor of Paris, he remains in France. There, he keeps a watchful eye over a Parisian woman and her daughter, so like his own, whose lives have grown entangled with his.
When a grenade attack in the Jewish quarter injures the mayor and kills a charismatic politician on the rise, Kruse is catapulted back into the maelstrom of organized crime and dirty politics. Zoé, a young woman working for a shadowy division of the French clandestine services, hires Kruse and his old colleague and mentor, Tzvi, to hunt down the leader of the attack. The mission leads him not to redemption but down a rabbit hole of deception and violence, and into an unlikely affair.
As extreme politics, the rise of terror and globalization threaten Europe, Kruse must determine where the danger lies, not only to protect a country that has failed him but to save what’s left of himself.