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

“Thank you, Quinn.” I spread the kits out. They were balsa wood models of three different dinosaurs: a pteranodon, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops.


“You’re welcome. And if you have any difficulty with these, I’m sure Joe can help you.”


“That’s a good idea.” They didn’t look complicated, but they should keep the kid occupied. I set them aside and raised the lid of my laptop.


It didn’t take long to power it up. The information The Boss had sent was waiting in an email. I opened it and read through it quickly. Mostly it was background data regarding Gautier and the people high up in her organization, one of whom happened to be a man named Finchley.


“Son of a bitch. Son of a goddamned fucking bitch.”


“What…” He didn’t begin to swear—he was too classy a guy—but I could see he wasn’t happy about what I pointed out to him. “Do you think it’s likely to be the same Finchley we met last October?”


Chapter 79