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Overview

The new Risk Agent novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

Private security firm Rutherford Risk’s new client is a philanthropist with a headline-making cause: to locate and shut down an Amsterdam-based sweatshop that uses enslaved girls as forced labor. Enter import/export entrepreneur John Knox, with his former combat experience—and forensic accountant Grace Chu, who can trap and trace even the most sensitive financial information.

Working through the picturesque streets and canals of Amsterdam, Knox and Grace face Middle Eastern mobsters, the owner of a local brothel and police officers they don’t trust. Pursuing one young girl who holds the key to their investigation, but is either too afraid or in too deep to help them, they encounter the dark side of a secret world where would-be allies are enemies, and the victims themselves don’t want to be saved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410458292
Publisher:	Gale Cengage Learning
Publication date:	06/19/2013
Series:	Risk Agent Series , #2
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	517
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ridley Pearson is the author of more than two dozen crime novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Killer Summer, Killer View, and Probable Cause. He is also the author of the bestselling Lou Boldt crime series, and the young reader series The Kingdom Keepers. In 1990, Pearson was awarded the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship at Wadam College, Oxford. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Hometown:

St. Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth:

March 13, 1953

Place of Birth:

Glen Cove, New York

Education:

Kansas University, B.A., Brown University

Website:

http://www.ridleypearson.com/

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for the Risk Agent Novels
“A new reading addiction...” —BookReporter.com

Choke Point

“Plenty of action and some steamy sex help make the pages fly by.”—Publishers Weekly

“Another compelling thriller…a winner.”—Library Journal

“The action is…nonstop.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Risk Agent

“Brace yourself for a thrilling afternoon.”—Chicago Tribune

“A stunning new international thriller series.”—St. Augustine News

“A cunning thriller…Fans will want more, and soon.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Thriller fans will look forward to seeing more of Knox.”—Publishers Weekly

“Rich with the atmosphere…breathtaking suspense.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“The perfect summer read.”—Christian Science Monitor

“Full of action, twists and turns, double crosses, and good old-fashioned thrills.”—BookReporter.com

Further praise for Ridley Pearson and his novels:

“A multilayered thriller.”—Houston Chronicle

“[A] page-turner.”—The Seattle Times

“[An] edge-of-your-seat crime novel.”—Tucson Citizen

“Pearson can plot a heist with ingenuity and delicious complexity.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A gripping page-turner of a novel.”—Rocky Mountain News

“A master of that all-too-rare book: the read that is both exciting and intelligent.”—The Associated Press

“Ridley Pearson has outdone himself.”—James Patterson

“Ridley Pearson writes thrillers…that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.”—Boston Sunday Globe

“Ridley Pearson…[is] fully worthy of comparison to Michael Connelly.”—Scott Turow

“Consummate entertainment.”—The Baltimore Sun

“Ridley Pearson packs a wallop.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer

“If we had a Thriller Hall of Fame, Ridley Pearson would be a first-ballot certainty, both for his technical virtuosity and his intensely human stories.”—Lee Child

“You’ll never go through a faster three hundred pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Irresistible, pulse-pounding.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Editorial Reviews

In bestseller Pearson’s fine sequel to 2012’s The Risk Agent, philanthropist Graham Winston—who’s famous for supporting causes like Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, and Doctors Without Borders—hires Rutherford Risk, a private security firm, to shut down an illegal Amsterdam rug factory that uses kidnapped girls as forced labor. Risk’s field operations manager, David Dulwich, puts security agent John Knox, who supports “Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch, Victoria’s Secret and Apple,” and Knox’s partner, former forensic accountant and computer expert Grace Chu, on the case. Knox, who’s big and tough, is attracted to Grace, who wants to prove herself as an able field agent, but he’s unsure how she feels about him. They make a good team, with his brawn and her brains, as they fight and kill their way to the top of the child-abuse cabal. Plenty of action and some steamy sex help make the pages fly by. Author tour. Agent: Amy Berkower, Writers House. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for the Risk Agent Novels
“A new reading addiction...” —BookReporter.com
Choke Point
“Plenty of action and some steamy sex help make the pages fly by.”—Publishers Weekly
“Another compelling thriller…a winner.”—Library Journal
“The action is…nonstop.”—Kirkus Reviews
The Risk Agent
“Brace yourself for a thrilling afternoon.”—Chicago Tribune
“A stunning new international thriller series.”—St. Augustine News
“A cunning thriller…Fans will want more, and soon.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Thriller fans will look forward to seeing more of Knox.”—Publishers Weekly
“Rich with the atmosphere…breathtaking suspense.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“The perfect summer read.”—Christian Science Monitor
“Full of action, twists and turns, double crosses, and good old-fashioned thrills.”—BookReporter.com
Further praise for Ridley Pearson and his novels:
“A multilayered thriller.”—Houston Chronicle
“[A] page-turner.”—The Seattle Times
“[An] edge-of-your-seat crime novel.”—Tucson Citizen
“Pearson can plot a heist with ingenuity and delicious complexity.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A gripping page-turner of a novel.”—Rocky Mountain News
“A master of that all-too-rare book: the read that is both exciting and intelligent.”—The Associated Press
“Ridley Pearson has outdone himself.”—James Patterson
“Ridley Pearson writes thrillers…that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.”—Boston Sunday Globe
“Ridley Pearson…[is] fully worthy of comparison to Michael Connelly.”—Scott Turow
“Consummate entertainment.”—The Baltimore Sun
“Ridley Pearson packs a wallop.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer
“If we had a Thriller Hall of Fame, Ridley Pearson would be a first-ballot certainty, both for his technical virtuosity and his intensely human stories.”—Lee Child
“You’ll never go through a faster three hundred pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Irresistible, pulse-pounding.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

From the Publisher

John Knox and Grace Chu (The Risk Agent) return in another high-stakes international thriller set this time in Amsterdam. Their boss has an assignment that drops the duo into the world of child slave labor. Knox and Chu's usual methods of obtaining information are thrown out the window because potential sources know they will die if they talk. Knox teams up with a reporter who cares more about the story than about safety, and everyone is seeking a little girl who holds the key to stopping the abuse. VERDICT Drawing on the horrors of the international trade in child slaves, Pearson has written another compelling thriller. Knox and Chu are protagonists who engage the reader. Although the book sometimes seems like a prolonged ad for Apple products, it is still a winner for the author's many fans. [See Prepub Alert, 12/14/12.]—Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.

Library Journal

Now that they've established their credentials in Shanghai (The Risk Agent, 2012, etc.), John Knox and Grace Chu, of Rutherford Risk, go up against a coldblooded sweatshop owner in Amsterdam. When you have as much money as philanthropist Graham Winston, and maybe political aspirations as well, you can direct your millions at any injustice you see, and what Winston sees, thanks to a blistering newspaper exposé by Sonia Pangarkar, is little girls knotting handmade rugs. Some of the pathetically underage workers, like Maja Sehovic, lead relatively normal second lives as schoolchildren; others, like Berna Ranatunga, are literally chained to their jobs. Winston hires private security firm Rutherford to shut down the knot shop Sonia profiled, and David Dulwich assigns the job to his friend John Knox and forensic accountant Grace Chu. It's a lucky thing that Winston's expense account is generous, since pretty much everything that could possibly go wrong does. Sonia would rather sleep with Knox than open up to him or introduce him to her sources, even when those sources ominously begin to disappear. The girls' parents are no more eager to say anything that might endanger their daughters or compromise themselves. Gerhardt Kreiger, the middleman Knox contacts to put together a fictional purchasing deal that will give Knox more information about where the rugs are made, turns out to be playing a deeper game of his own. So is Chief Inspector Joshua Brower, who Dulwich assured Knox would be a reliable police contact. And whoever is behind the knot shop is cunning, determined and willing to use violence against Knox and Grace and anyone else who gets close to him. Pearson plots resourcefully, and the complications are intelligently varied. The action is so nonstop, however, that long before the end, many readers will feel as exhausted, if nowhere near as battered, as Grace and Knox.

Kirkus Reviews