Julian Mercer

Stopping a killer is just the beginning...

His business card reads security specialist, but Julian Mercer can do just about anything. Trained by the SAS but forced into an early retirement after his wife was viciously slain, Mercer puts his unique set of skills to use in the world of K&R and crisis negotiation.

One night, Mercer hears a woman screaming. He rushes to the scene, arriving moments too late to stop the shooter. A man is bleeding out in his fiancée's arms. While paramedics tend to the victim, Mercer searches for the assassin, but he has disappeared. And no matter what the police say, this wasn't a mugging gone wrong. It was a failed hit.

With the victim still very much alive, Mercer is hired to put an end to the contract, but to do that he'll need to find the hitman and convince him to give up his boss. Getting answers won't be easy. In fact, it's bound to get messy. Mercer's willing to do whatever it takes, but there are some lines even he shouldn't cross.