{"title":"Steve Hamilton","description":"Steve Hamilton is the New York Times-bestselling author of twelve novels, most recently The Second Life of Nick Mason and Die a Stranger. His debut, A Cold Day in Paradise,  won both an Edgar and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His standalone novel The Lock Artist was a New York Times Notable Crime Book and won an Alex Award and the Edgar Award for Best Novel. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing, and now lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children.","products":[{"product_id":"exit-strategy-paperback","title":"Exit Strategy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the stunning follow-up to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Second Life of Nick Mason\u003c\/i\u003e, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But first he has to find them--they're ghost prisoners locked down around the clock in classified \"deep black\" locations by an battalion of heavily armed U.S. marshals charged with protecting them--and the clock is ticking. Cole is appealing his conviction, and these witnesses are either his ticket to freedom or the final nail in his coffin. If they testify, Darius Cole will never step foot in the outside world again. If they are killed, he will walk out a free man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betrayed, Darius Cole. Rather than waiting to be Mason's next victim, he has escaped witness protection to hunt down and kill Mason himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an action-packed journey that leads from a high-security military installation in the Appalachian Mountains to a secret underground bunker hidden far below the streets of New York City, Nick Mason will have to become, more than ever before, the lethal weapon that Darius Cole created.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103669817567,"sku":"9798217176946","price":27.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bboYowVh-89798217176946.webp?v=1781097408"},{"product_id":"an-honorable-assassin-a-nick-mason-novel-hardcover","title":"An Honorable Assassin: A Nick Mason Novel - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom two-time Edgar Award-winning author Steve Hamilton, An Honorable Assassin is another terrifying thriller featuring the unstoppable Nick Mason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was released from federal prison to a second life as an unwilling assassin, serving a major Chicago crime lord until the day he finally won his freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that freedom was a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Mason finds himself on a plane to Jakarta, promoted to lead assassin for a vast shadow organization that reaches every corner of the globe. This time, there's only one name on his list: Hashim Baya--otherwise known as the Crocodile--international fugitive and #1 most wanted on Interpol's \"Red Notice\" list. Baya is the most dangerous and elusive criminal Mason has ever faced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd for the first time in his career ... Mason fails his mission. Baya gets away alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's only one thing he can do now: to save himself, his ex-wife, and his daughter, he must make this mission his life, hunting down the target on his own. But Mason isn't alone in his search, because for Interpol agent Martin Sauvage, apprehending Baya has become a personal vendetta. Sauvage is a man just as haunted as Mason. And just as determined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever have the stakes been so high, the forces surrounding him so great. Sauvage wants Baya in prison. Mason needs him in a body bag. Assassin and cop are on a five-thousand-mile collision course, leading to a brutal final showdown--and the one man in the world who can finally show Nick Mason the way to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104515821791,"sku":"9781982627492","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8_subYP4JU9781982627492.webp?v=1781108509"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/steve-hamilton.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}