The Very Dangerous Liaison

Alex Garfield is one red hot spy--from the custom-made Hermes fannypack where she hides her Sig Sauer 228 pistol to her exotic tastes in booze, cars and men. This is a woman who knows how to take care of herself, and to pleasure the reader, too. In Tillman Gilson's entertaining fiction, the CIA is alive and well, and wearing Jimmy Choos.

— David Ignatius, columnist, The Washington Post and author of "Bloodmoney."

Come along on a breathtaking race through a world of glamour and danger with a truly new kind of covert agent, Alex Garfield. She is a woman who not only loves her work but also loves her life and the many men who occupy it at different times.

As one of her country's very secret weapons, Alex has survived many difficult situations, often exercising her ''terminal abilities'' to eliminate threats to national security. She does it all while maintaining her facade of a chic Washington widow whose prime concerns seem to be shopping and socializing. While jetting around the world, Alex finds herself up against the Russian Mafia, high priced assassins, and Arab terrorists.

Author Tillman Gilson takes the reader on a high speed chase through the world of spies, killers, high fashion, and gourmet food and drink. While using both underworld and legitimate contacts in London, Paris, Moscow, Washington, Istanbul. Cairo, Rome and other glamorous locales throughout the world, in The Very Dangerous Liaison, Alex Garfield races to stop a terrorist plot against the U.S. as well as catching a mole within her own organization.