He's deadly and dangerous. A quick and clean assassin. But he's burned out and ready to quit. Trained by a government agency with no name, Layne Parrish can snap a neck with one hand. But tea parties and cartoons with his three-year-old daughter is where his priorities are. After retiring to the mountains of Colorado for a simpler life, Layne thought that perilous world was behind him. He was wrong—dead wrong. When his former boss begs for his expertise, Layne knows he has one mission: Eliminate an assassin to save a life. It's a job he can't refuse. This particular assassin is a ghost from his past—a murky past he wants destroyed. But when Layne picks up his pistol for the last time, will his plan backfire?