Goat Rope

<p><strong>Mack might cut your throat but with faultless etiquette.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Christine Barton a Vermont state trooper witnesses a murder while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a bright summer morning in 1999. She takes refuge from the killer in a safe house full of spies and deadly operatives who could be allies but seem more like enemies. She soon understands she is not free to leave.</p><p> </p><p>Charlemagne the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints has been tasked with tracing and destroying a well-funded network of political assassins. They must sift reality from deception in a bewildering kaleidoscope of information and agendas and will use Christine to gain the advantage regardless of the cost to her.</p><p> </p><p>With deep mutual distrust Christine and Charlemagne work together in the narrow space of their shared interests surrounded by the chaos of a true goat rope.</p><p> </p><p>Goat Rope is the tenth volume in K.A. Bachus's fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over a span of three decades.</p>