Chris Pavone

"Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone--no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can't fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new--much younger--husband? The clock...

Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.

Will Rhodes has made a terrible mistake. Harmless flirtations are part of his job. But these flirtations have never showed up at his hotel room with a gun, threatening his life. Will is a travel writer, a wine aficionado and international food expert for Travelers magazine. Though he's wondered why he sometimes has to deliver bulky sealed packages to consulates all over the world, or why he occasionally has to use a fake name. Now those shadowy errands...

El marido de Ariel ha desaparecido sin avisar, no le ha dejado ninguna nota y ni siquiera responde al móvil. ¿Ha salido a correr y lo han asaltado? ¿Secuestrado? ¿Asesinado? ¿Podría ser un estafador, un traficante de drogas o, quizá, un espía? ¿Tal vez se ha asustado ante este repentino matrimonio y la ha abandonado? Consulta, primero, al personal del hotel, luego a la policía, después a la embajada de Estados Unidos, y cada vez se enfrenta...