Lovely Night to Die is a new thriller novella from Caleb Pirtle III. If you know 
his work, you know that Caleb is a terrific storyteller. And he can pull you into a scene and your heart will be racing. Here’s a brief blurb.
Why should she fall in love with a man she defended in court? Does she know he’s a CIA assassin? Does she know he has orders to kill the President? Does she know she will die if he fails? What else doesn’t she know?
Roland Sand has killed two government operatives sent to execute him. He is arrested and represented in court by a beautiful young public defender, Eleanor Trent. Their eyes connect. So do their hearts, but both keep their feeling buried deep inside them.
Eleanor does not know that Sand is an assassin for a rogue intelligence agency that sells its deadly services to foreign nations as well as to its own country. He has angered his chief, the one-eyed Bohemian, by refusing to kill an accountant who accidentally saw the details of a top-secret mission. Sand sees no reason why an innocent man should die.
The Bohemian’s agents kidnap Sand and take him from the Durango, Colorado, jail. He is given one chance to redeem himself. He must carry out the assignment to assassinate the President of the United States. It is a mission sanctioned from inside the United States government.
Eleanor is furious, and she is frightened. She has lost cases before. But never has she lost a client. In desperation, he calls Navy SEAL Commander John Nickols to help her track down the missing Roland Sand. She handled a case for one of Nickols’s friends years earlier, and he said she could count on him if she ever needed him.
At Midway Airport, Sand awaits the arrival of Air Force One. The President comes down the steps, and Sand sees Eleanor in the greeting committee. He is told, “Kill the President or we kill the lady.” He has only a second to make up his mind.
And Nickols knows, if necessary, he must kill Sand to save the President.
If you’d like to find out who is left standing, check out Lovely Night to Die on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2EfJVSC And leave a comment, or a guess, or just a Merry Christmas. Thanks,
jim
This sounds like a page turner, the kind of book that keeps you awake all night.
It IS a page turner, Lesley. Thanks for stopping by.
I enjoy Caleb’s writing, so I will definitely check this out. Thanks for the head’s up, Jim.
Thanks for leaving a comment, Maryann. And you are not alone. I love Caleb’s writing. And I love to hear him tell stories. This book sounds like a winner.