Marked Man

In New York Times bestselling author William Lashner's new thriller, Philly attorney Victor Carl wakes up with a tattoo on his chest and no idea how it got there. Finding the answer will land Carl in very hot water indeed. It must have been a hell of a night, one of those evenings where the world shifts and doors open and your life changes forever. If only Victor Carl could remember it. One moment he is having a late-night drink in his neighborhood bar and the next he awakens in the early morning hours on the floor of his apartment building's vestibule, his suit in tatters, his socks missing, his eyebrows singed, and a stinging pain he can't quite identify. When he strips off his shirt, he finds a white gauze bandage on his chest. Underneath is a tattoo of a heart and a rose and a name: CHANTAL ADAIR. So begins the hunt. It leads him inevitably to a strip club, where a dancer named Monica Adair uses the stage name of Chantal. Chantal is her sister, who disappeared years before. This all comes as Victor is in the midst of delicate negotiations to broker a deal for a ex-con who wants to come in out of the cold and has a stolen Rembrandt painting to grease the way. Someone is not happy that the painting has surfaced and that the ex-con is threatening to tell all, and someone is definitely not happy that questions are being asked about Chantal Adair. The closer Victor comes to figuring it all out, the deeper into danger he falls, as the ghosts of the past return to lay claim to what is theirs.Lashner, William is the author of 'Marked Man', published 2006 under ISBN 9780060721558 and ISBN 0060721553.