Charlotte 'Charlie' Fox has been described as a female version of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Like Reacher, Charlie's background is military. She was a first-class shot who was selected for Special Forces training, but that's where it all went horribly wrong. Chucked out of the army in disgrace, Charlie drifts through a variety of jobs in the early books, teaching self-defence and working nightclub doors, and house-sitting on a run-down housing estate. But then she meets up with a spectre from her army past − one of her old training instructors, Sean Meyer.
Sean is now back in civvy street himself, running his own personal protection agency. He offers Charlie a job and, after a rocky start at a shady training school in Germany, she embarks on a new career as a bodyguard.
Still, as you'd expect, things don't always run smoothly for Charlie. Her first job in Florida goes horribly wrong and leaves her on the run with her teenage charge, fearing Sean is dead. Then, back home again, she is caught up in the aftermath of a fatal motorbike accident involving one of her closest friends and finds herself back in the role of unwilling protector.
Whatever her own misgivings − and the doubts of her family − being a bodyguard is the perfect legitimate outlet for someone with her lethal abilities. And working closely alongside Sean can be its own reward . . .















