Critical Space

The acclaimed

author of Shooting at Midnight has penned a thriller like no other... the

no-holds-barred story of a bodyguard with the ultimate assignment: protecting a

woman who also happens to be the most hunted killer in the world...

Code-named

Drama, she is a lightning-fast death machine — a hitwoman sought by

intelligence agencies around the world. Drama kills as easily as she breathes...

and the last time she and Atticus Kodiak met, they barely escaped each other

alive. 

Atticus Kodiak

has a reputation as one of the toughest bodyguards in the business. He’s used

to picking his assignments and calling the shots. But all that changes when he

is forced to take on Drama as a client — the last person he ever imagined would

need his protection. 

This time,

Drama is the one who is running from a killer. She needs Atticus’s help, and

she won’t take no for an answer. To prove it, she abducts a high-profile member

of the royal family whom Atticus has sworn to protect. He will do almost

anything to get the woman back. But what Drama needs from him will destroy his

reputation — and siding with her means he can never turn back.

From New

York’s Russian enclaves to the Swiss Alps and the Caribbean, Atticus becomes

Drama’s protector, and her only hope for survival as she tries to outlive and

outrun her bloody past. But once immersed in Drama’s high-stakes, covert world,

Atticus breaks a cardinal rule: He gets to know Drama as a woman rather than

just a client — and it’s a bond that could cost them both their lives.

For the men

hunting Drama are capable of unspeakable violence — of sins that make Drama’s

own look like the acts of an amateur. And they will stop at nothing to see her

dead...

A masterful

work by one of the most unique voices in the field, Critical Space combines

high-voltage, high-tech action with swift, terrifying brutality. The result is

Greg Rucka’s most explosive thriller to date — a powerhouse of a novel destined

to become a classic of modern suspense.