Glass Tiger [Paperback]

Brendan Thorne, ex-Ranger, ex-sniper for the CIA, has foresworn violence when his presence is demanded at a top-secret meeting. Halden Corwin, legendary Vietnam sniper and mercenary, has vowed to assassinate the recently elected president of the United States, and the governments computers have picked Thorne as the most likely person to find Corwin. Special agent Terrill Hatfields crack FBI team will take care of the rest. But when the plan doesnt go as described, Thorne discovers hes been drawn into a web of lies, ambitions, and double-crosses that will force him to stand and fight. A fast-paced thriller full of stunning revelations, Glass Tiger will leave the reader breathless.

PRAISE FORGLASS TIGER
 
Fast paced and surprising,Glass Tigerfinds Gores getting better with age--while the majority of his contemporaries are content to rest on their laurels, this multiple Edgar Award winning scribe continues to write novels that challenge and entertain. --Mystery Scene Magazine
 
Edgar-winner Gores will satisfy action junkies with this fast-paced, suspenseful stand-alone . . . Gores artfully shifts perspective between the hunter and the hunted. Publishers Weekly

CHAPTER ONE
 
january nineteenth. Hal Corwin crossed the Truckee Post Office parking lot with the slightest of limps, gingerly, as if not sure of his footing on the just-plowed surface. Here, at nearly six thousand feet of elevation on the Cal-Nev border, the frigid air bit hard at his bullet-damaged lung.

  Janet Kestrel stepped down from the drivers side of her old dark-green 4-Runner facing out from a far corner of the lot. Its motor was running as if for a quick getaway. Her tawny face was as brown as his, but from genetics, not weather. Today her ebony hair was piled on top of her head under a fur-lined cap.

 Hal put his left hand on her arm, tenderly. The hand was missing two fingers. l#+