Threat (Rina Walker, #2)

London, 1961: George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favored contract killer. Now 21, she is living next door to her lover Lizzie, now a fearsome dominatrix whose clients include a senior member of the government. Rina is approached by Tony Farina, one of the Maltese brothers who control vice in Soho. Seven girls have disappeared, and Rina discovers they are being killed and supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre sexual tastes. Rinas pursuit of the girls murderer become increasingly desperate as she grapples with corruption and betrayal, and heads towards a final confrontation with depravity. "Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another another quick, clean kill. She wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK-47 coming through the door of her hotel room. She needs all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. After a car chase, she is captured by a Mexican drug boss who exploits her radiant beauty and ruthless expertise to eliminate an inconvenient member of the government. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic mother. When a local gangster attacks her younger sister, Rina wreaks violent revenge and murders him. Innocence betrayed, Rina faces the brutality of the post-war London underworld - a world that teaches her the skills she needs to kill"--Publisher's description London 1961. In the dying days of the MacMillan government George Preston is in control of crime in West London and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. Now 21, she is living next door to her lover Lizzie, herself a fearsome dominatrix whose clients include a senior member of the government. Rina is approached by Tony Farina, one of the vicious Maltese brothers who control vice in Soho. Seven girls have disappeared & Rina discovers they are being killed and supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre sexual tastes. Rina's pursuit of the girls' murderer becomes increasingly desperate as she grapples with corruption and betrayal at the highest levels of society, and heads towards a deadly and depraved final confrontation