In 2002, Mark Vincent, onetime senior special agent, ran into John, a troubled little boy, at a local McDonald’s. Concerned, although it wasn’t his business, he gave the kid his business card and left. Three years later, Mark is director of his department at the WBIS and married to Quinton Mann, the former CIA spook who now writes spy novels. They’ve settled into a life of quiet domesticity and are even considering adopting a cat. All this changes when John, now using another name, barrels into Mark’s life with a secret no one expects and on the run from an organization that wants him despite the collateral damage. What will Mark, the man known as “the best” in the intelligence community, do when he learns what this secret is? Will it affect his relationship with Quinn? And how complicated are things going to get when Mark decides to get involved?

Mann of My Dreams Book 5: Complications

They stared at him in surprise, then exchanged glances and shrugged. “Fine.” They tossed him into the back of the van none too gently before going back for the second one, who got the same treatment.


“Interesting,” Perry observed. “My lawyer, not a lawyer. I wonder if we’ll have a bunch of shysters descending on us tomorrow.”


“Y’know, it might be a good idea to let them make that phone call.”


“We’ll see who shows up and follow the trail back to who hired them.” Or not. Their employer might decide to cut them loose.


The third asshole, the one my kid had beaned, was still out cold.


Nature or nurture, whichever it was, damn, it made me proud.


Perry turned to me, all business now. “We’ll get what we can out of them, but it might not be much.”


For some reason, I got the impression he’d nearly said, “Not in this lifetime.”


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