A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larssons Lisbeth Salander. The Dallas Morning News
Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things donedangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Africa, taken under the tutelage of gunrunners, and tortured by one of the jungles most brutal men, Munroe was forced to do whatever it took to stay alive.
The ability to survive, fight, adapt, and blend has since taken her across the globe on behalf of corporations, heads of state, and the few private clients who can afford her unique brand of expertise, and these abilities have made her enemies.
On a busy Dallas street, Munroe is kidnapped by an unseen opponent and thrust into an underground world where women and girls are merchandise and a shadowy figure known as The Doll Maker controls her every move. While trusted friends race to unravel where she is and why she was taken, everything pivots on one simple choice: Munroe must use her unique set of skills to deliver a high-profile young woman into the same nightmare that she once endured, or condemn to torture and certain death the one person she loves above all else.
Driven by the violence that has made her what she is, cut off from help, and with attempts to escape predicted and prevented, Munroe will hunt for openings, for solutions, and a way to strike back at a man who holds all the cards. Because only one thing is certain: she cannot save everyone.
In this high-octane thriller for fans of Lee Child, Stieg Larsson, and Robert Ludlum'sBourne trilogy, Vanessa Michael Munroe will have to fight fast, smart and furiously to overcome a dangerous nemesis and deliver her trademark brand of justice.
From the Hardcover edition.
Review
"Munroe is a sensational character and Stevens is a sensational writer, and together they put The Doll high on my books-of-the-year list." Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
Prolific linguist and exquisitely honed killer Munroe is no less effective here for still suffering from past traumaStevenss third series outing is another brisk, adrenaline-fueled adventure with a trail of bodies and a damaged protagonist who may live to kill another day. Library Journal
Stevens third Munroe book is another international action-adventure with a Bourne-like avenging angel at the reins. Booklist
Lean and mean thriller featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, an "informationist" with a scary dark streak This book is strongly influenced by the existential bare-bones approach of Lee Child's Reacher books, and its brilliant but damaged heroine, the estranged daughter of missionaries, owes much toThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But Stevens stamps the novel with her own bleak, punishing, bullet-flyingoutlook Out of that gloomy intensity comes edgy suspense. In Stevens' powerfully contained follow-up toThe Innocent, there is no release for the tormented heroine, only license to live another day. *Kirkus
Good and bad deeds alike have a high price, as dramatically shown in Stevenss harrowing third Vanessa Michael Munroe novelMunroe remains as compelling as ever: violent yet protective of innocence, imprisoned by not only her past but also the choices she has made in response to it, and painfully conscious of her closeness to sanitys edge. Publishers Weekly
This New York Times Bestselling author is backwith a truly spellbinding story. Suspense Magazine (full review to appear in the June issue of Suspense* Magazine
About the Author
TAYLOR STEVENS is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Informationist and The Innocent, both featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe. They received critical acclaim and have been published in twenty languages. Raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond the sixth grade, Stevens broke free of the Children of God and now lives in Texas and is currently at work on the next Munroe adventure.