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Final Taste
2025
First Published
4.25
Average Rating
398
Number of Pages

Ex-Secret Service agent Kate Stark owns the #1 cooking network on television. When a chef and a guest judge are poisoned on her show, all fingers point to Kate—except she’s nowhere to be found. Drugged, kidnapped, and loaded into a shipping container, Kate’s next port of call? North Korea. From New York TV studios and her Chrysler Building penthouse suite to the Panama Canal and a DPRK smuggling ship, Kate desperately recruits her team as she races to stay a geek, a Marine, her con-man twin brother, and a very handsome chef. It will take all their skills to survive. Previously published as Dead Chef #1, One Chef!

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Author

M.L. Buchman
M.L. Buchman
Author · 168 books

USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. “Matt” Buchman started writing on a flight south from Japan to ride his bicycle across the Australian Outback. Just part of a solo around-the-world trip that ultimately launched his writing career. From the very beginning, his powerful female heroines insisted on putting character first, then a great adventure. He’s since written over 60 action-adventure thrillers and military romantic suspense novels. And just for the fun of it: 100 short stories, and a fast-growing pile of read-by-author audiobooks. Booklist says: 3x “Top 10 of the Year.” PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” His fans say: “I want more now…of everything.” That his characters are even more insistent than his fans is a hoot. As a 30-year project manager with a geophysics degree who has designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, and solo-sailed a 50’ ketch, he is awed by what is possible. More at: www.mlbuchman.com.

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