Bolero (A Nick Sayler Novel)
Guarded, emotionally scarred Nick Saylor has finally found contentment as a reputable private investigator and bodyguard, happily sharing a Hudson River barge-turned-homestead with his psychiatrist father-figure and his sidekick, an investigative genius. Their contented domesticity seems unshakable until a desperate ER doctor awakens Nick one night, claiming that a Saylor Security business card is the only link his brutally assaulted, amnesiac patient has to her former life. Nick reluctantly rides to the rescue and begins the daunting task of identifying the woman, whose battered ballet dancer’s feet provide the only useful clue. Further complicating matters, the dancer’s attackers pursue them to Nick’s barge, and he has his hands full protecting her and his boatful of roommates. Nick simultaneously hunts and fights off the attackers as the action shifts from hospital to barge to multimillion-dollar mansion to fabulous NYC apartment to NYC expressway. At the same time, he’s fighting attraction to his client, who hauntingly resembles a lost love. An action-filled, exhilarating escape with thrills similar to those of Michael Koryta’s Lincoln Perry adventures. --Christine Tran