Witch Hunt

"A formidable presence in Rankin's precision-tooled plot....

`Witch' is the code name for the tall, wraithlike woman who has been working as a contract killer for almost twenty years, picking off prominent political, military, and industrial figures. Her devious methods and inventive disguises have allowed this lone-wolf predator to go undetected by international law enforcement, until her uncharacteristically violent Channel crossing from Calais to Folkestone alerts agents in the Special Branch and the Secret Service to a possible terrorist attack on the heads of state at a nine-nation summit in London."

--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review