Book 2, Living with Death

A near-death experience has left our hero physically weakened and mentally shaken. Given no time to heal, a business partner immediately launches an internal attack to replace him as the CEO of his company. Simultaneously he is pressured from the outside by an international competitor intent on destroying his company, a man who is unafraid to use violence as a tool for success. Despite his well-established, bachelor lifestyle, he weakens under the intense pressure and seeks solace in love. But his inability to express his true feeling ultimately alienates his girlfriend, driving her away. Fortunately for him she is unwilling to accept defeat. With the assistance of an agent in the CIA, she travels to New York to find the answers he needs to survive. And the Big Apple becomes the meeting ground where the anxious spoils of love and war are violently scattered.