These are the absolute best of our bestselling hardcover titles -- published in paperback eight to twelve months after our hardcover publication date. Lightweight and easy to handle, these quality editions are ideal for outreach and nursing home programs.Lucas Davenport faces his most unusual and most implacable foe in Clara Rinker -- the best hitwoman in the business. She isn't showy, not one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money and goes home. It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine. But then a witness survives, the attorney starts acting weird, this big cop Davenport gets on her case, and loose ends begin popping up faster than a sweater unraveling ...