Praised as the "female Jack Reacher," Camaro Espinoza is about to turn the tables on a violent stalker in this pulse-pounding crime thriller ( The Toronto Star ).

Life in Miami isn't complicated for ex-army medic Camaro Espinoza: Piloting charter fishing trips, fighting at the gym, drinking at the bar. Simple doesn't mean stable, though, and two complicating factors—okay, people—are about to disrupt Camaro's relative peace.

Faith Glazer, an accountant with no way to defend herself, begs Camaro's help to stop a stalker who follows her every move. While Ignacio Montellano, a detective on the homicide beat, wants to be her guardian angel and all too deftly finds ways to insert himself in her path.

When Faith's stalker takes his obsession to a new, frightening level, Camaro might find reason to appreciate Montellano after all. The deeper they look, the more trouble they find: federal agents, money-launderers, crooked security contractors, and paramilitary killers. Every one of them with a reason to come after Faith, and to put Camaro down. But Camaro doesn't flinch when violence comes her way. And she has a singular talent for making her enemies sorry they ever heard her name.

"Camaro is a lean, mean, fighting machine and a woman of very few words. But that's ok because she says plenty with her fists." ― Criminal Element

"Tightly plotted . . . the action-packed narrative derives its real power from the complex character of Camaro, whose toughness and bad attitude make Jack Reacher look like a choir boy." ― Publishers Weekly

Sam Hawken