num_pages: 480
description: Popular fantasy author Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld) makes a thrilling foray into crime fiction, with the debut of a series featuring female assassin Nadia Stafford.Stafford is one of the world’s few female contract killers. A former cop, drummed out of the force because of a scandal, she is an expert at disguise and cool under pressure. But when fellow hitman Jack arrives on the scene, Nadia’s very private existence is seriously challenged.A series of victims are being murdered seemingly at random all over the US — different areas, different walks of life, different MOs. There is nothing to tie them together except a random page torn out of a single book, "Helter Skelter". Does the Helter Skelter killer — as the hysterical media now dub him — have a real connection to Charles Manson? Or is there something even more sinister at work?Is this, in fact — as Jack believes — the carefully planned exit strategy of a fellow professional killer, determined to leave the life, but equally determined to clear up an old mistake or two? And, if so, who is the real victim? Now, the highly suspicious and secretive hitman community will have to break their cover — at least, to each other — and help take down this killer before the cops and the Feds discover his true connection to their own secret, exclusive society.
language: English
title: Exit Strategy
titlecomplete: Exit Strategy (Nadia Stafford #1)
characters: Brad Stafford, Mitch Dylan, Bert (Exit Strategy), Benjamin Moreland, Martin Dubois, Wilkes (Exit Strategy), Quinn (Exit Strategy), The Waldens, Saul (Exit Strategy), Jack (Exit Strategy), Dean Moretti, Mark Waters, Brad Cox, and Chris Doyle, Charles Manson, Little Joe Nikolaev, Maurice Gallagher, Evelyn (Exit Strategy), Joyce Scranton, Russ Belding, Frances and Maggie, Paul Tomassini, Vincent Bugliosi, The Helter Skelter Killer, Cooper (Exit Strategy), Grace and Cliff, Leon Kozlov, Alicia Sanchez, Carson Morrow, Jaxson (Exit Strategy), Nadia Stafford, Lyndsay (Exit Strategy), Baron (Exit Strategy), Mary Lee (Exit Strategy)
genres: Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Adult, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 8084
places: Canada, Indiana, Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, New York City, New York
series: Nadia Stafford
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best Original PI Paperback
publisher: Bantam