Synopses & Reviews
In
Gun Metal Heart by Dana Haynes, Daria Gibron, a freelance operative with a long and deadly history, has been slowly recovering from the injuries sustained from her last case. Hiding out in a town in rural Italy, she has been staying as far off the map as she can — until she's tracked down by an old colleague. Diego had been a bodyguard in Florence, protecting an engineer and her invention, when they were attacked by a highly trained paramilitary group. Diego alone escaped and the White Scorpions, a Serbian mercenary group known for their indiscriminate violence, are now after him. Well, after him and Daria, now that he's dragged her into the picture.
At the same time, a small group of disgraced CIA agents have been waiting for their chance to exact revenge on the person they blame for their discharge — Daria Gibron. When they learn she's in contact with Diego, they get the okay from their former bosses to take her out. With several highly trained teams out to get her, a partner withholding critical information, and a missing invention around which everything turns, Daria is in the worst danger of her life. And she couldn't be having more fun.
About the Author
Novelist Dana Haynes' fourth thriller novel,
Gun Metal Heart, will be released from St. Martin's Press on Aug. 19. It's the sequel to 2013's
Ice Cold Kill and stars Daria Gibron, a former soldier and spy caught up in an international conspiracy.
The Associated Press wrote of
Ice Cold Kill, "The bullets fly and the action never stops in Haynes' best book yet!"
Daria made her debut in Haynes' first thriller,
Crashers, in 2010. It won the Spotted Owl Award from Friends of Mystery as that year's best mystery or thriller written by a Northwest writer. His screenplay adaptation of
Crashers made it to the semifinals of a competition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Breaking Point, the sequel to
Crashers, was released in 2011.
Haynes is represented by Janet Reid of Fine Print Literary Management. He lives in Portland with his wife, novelist Katy King, and their cat Glamour. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he now serves as communications director for Portland Mayor Charlie Hales.
Haynes previously wrote three mystery novels for Bantam Books under the pen name Conrad Haynes.