Burned (Vanessa Pierson series Book 2)

Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world€s most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency. When she narrowly escapes death during a devastating explosion at the Louvre, Vanessa immediately suspects that Bhoot was the architect of the brazen terrorist attack. But when a previously unknown militant group claims responsibility for the bombing and promises even greater carnage, she is forced to rethink her initial assumptions€"especially when Bhoot himself contacts her to deny responsibility and confirm her suspicions that a miniaturized nuclear device may have fallen into hands more dangerous than his own. Of course, Vanessa knows Bhoot can€t be trusted. But she begins to fear that a new and even greater threat to the world€s fragile balance of power may have emerged.

As Vanessa€s investigation leads her ever closer to the identity of the mole and the real terrorists€ plans, she finds herself drawn against all her better instincts into a perilous alliance with one of the world€s most dangerous criminals€"a man who has become her darkest obsession . . . and perhaps her savior.

Moving swiftly from Paris, to Amsterdam, to Venice, to Istanbul, Burned is a nerve-shattering, intricately woven thriller about the mission to capture a brilliant and elusive mastermind€"and an exhilarating new chapter in the Vanessa Pierson saga.