A decorated soldier. A vanished lover. A city full of secrets.
Sandrine Brennan spent two decades earning ever-bigger jobs in the U.S. Army—and turned down a near-certain promotion to full colonel to take on the biggest of all: CEO of a well-funded new security firm with deep ties to the CIA, headquartered in Paris. She's even persuaded Eddie Grant—the billionaire Franco-American businessman who was a decorated Special Forces commander during the First Gulf War—to run her European operations.
Her last assignment before making the leap had taken her deep into the Sahel, the arid belt across central Africa where Russia's Wagner Group was buying governments and moving drugs. She survived it. Now she's in Paris, finally, and for the first time in years she's letting herself want something beyond the next mission.
Then Steve disappears.
He was a fellow student at Gran'Langue, Eddie's language school on the Left Bank. Charming, private, obviously connected to the intelligence world he wouldn't quite admit. She convinced herself he was the love of her life, but now he's gone—leaving behind a photograph, a transferred account she didn't ask for, and no explanation at all.
Sandi's search takes her from the polished salons of the 7th arrondissement to Luxembourg and back to the stone passages below Paris—toward a conspiracy that connects the drug pipeline she tracked in Africa to a corruption operation reaching into the highest levels of West African governments. Someone is making a great deal of money. Someone is also very interested in stopping her.
Paris Reckoning is the first book in the Sandi Brennan series, set within the world of John Pearce's acclaimed Eddie Grant Saga. If you're meeting Sandi for the first time, you won't need Eddie to follow her—but Eddie's readers will feel right at home.
