**From the Edgar Awardnominated author:**An agent for hire plays bodyguard to a titled beauty in Tenerifeand mixes partying with peril . . .
Joe Gall, freelance operative, is assigned to protect a beautiful baroness under threatand solve the mystery of who is after her. That means heading to the Canary Islandsand playing the part of a rich, hard-drinking American in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it . . .
"[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction." Larry McMurtry, The New York Times
"I admire Philip Atlee's writing tremendously." Raymond Chandler