Bøger af Derek Haas

He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him... "A natural killer," his mentor--a middleman named Vespucci--once said he was. He is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself Columbus.It's the name a middleman gave him, ten years ago, when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients, marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute who became dangerously involved with an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising political star. The magnetic Abe Mann has since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently running for his party's nomination in an exhausting presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind.But as Columbus pieces together his past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark, the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins unraveling violently around him in this tight and chilling debut that has been compared to The Manchurian Candidate and The Day of the Jackal.

The latest thriller featuring the sleek and sinister Silver Bear-from leading Hollywood scriptwriter Derek Haas.

In the shadowy world of hitmen, one man stands alone.His name is Columbus. They call him the Silver Bear. It means he will take on any assignment, complete it, and walk away clean.Columbus thinks he is immune to the pressures of his chosen career. But fate intends to prove him different.In these three novels, collected for the first time, Columbus finds himself in ever greater danger: a target, and on the run...

When you need to get rid of a Presidential candidate, you need THE SILVER BEAR.Columbus, the most respected and feared hitman in the criminal underworld, has killed many times using many weapons, including his bare hands. An assassin at the top of his profession, immune to the pressure of his chosen life, gliding silently beneath the view of law enforcement, he is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. When Columbus takes the contract on a congressman running for President, he discovers that his quarry is tied to his own mysterious past. Soon, he's fighting to stay alive - and to make sure his target does not . . .