The Shadow Friends
The Shadow Friends is book 3 in the Martini Club thriller series, in which a group of ex-spies living in the seaside town of Purity, Maine gather for another case to solve. This time, the case hits close to home when one of the members comes face to face with her past and joins her ex-colleague in the CIA and lover on a trek to Amsterdam to stop a killer who wants her dead. But how can the group of book lovers/ex-spies stay put when a group of assassins wants to stop them before they themselves reach Amsterdam. Once again, the need to rely on their long-lost skills they once learned back in the CIA to stop evil from happening before it’s too late.
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From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance―and cannot be outrun.
When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a waitress at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago.
Desperate to uncover the truth, Ingrid’s drawn back into the game by a magnetic ex-CIA colleague―and former lover―who was with her on the long-ago doomed mission. He convinces her to join him, and together they head to Amsterdam to track down her would-be killer.
Ingrid’s frantic husband Lloyd and Maggie Bird are close behind, but a clandestine network of assassins is intent on stopping them. Forced to question every allegiance, the Martini Club must rely on the skills they tried to leave behind. Because in this game of revenge and deception, the past never dies―it just hides in the shadows.
Part of The Martini Club series – see the full reading order on the Tess Gerritsen Books in Order page.
