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A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret legal recent behind her, and the strike man who involves her with an impossible job she can't refuse. Charlotte Alton can be an beautiful socialite. But behind the locked entrance doors of her sleek, high-security apartment in London's Docklands, she becomes Karla. Karla's business is information. Specifically, making it go away. She's the unseen figure who, for a commanding price, will cover a criminal's monitors. A perfectionist, she's only made one slip in her profession - in the past she revealed her face to a guy known as Simon Johanssen, an ex-special pushes sniper turned killer-for-hire. After a mob hit travelled horrifically incorrect, Johanssen needed to go away, and Karla helped him. He became a normal client, and then, 1 day, she stepped from the shadows for reasons unclear to even herself. Now, after an extended lack, Johanssen has resurfaced with a job, and he needs Karla's help again. The work is to take out an inmate - a female - in a experimental prison colony. But there is no record the mark ever existed. That isn't the one problem: the legal manager from whom Johanssen has been hiding is incarcerated there. It doesn't stop him. It's Karla's job to get him out alive, and do this she must find out the truth. Who's this woman? Who wants her dead? Is the job a trap for Johanssen or on her behalf? But every door she starts is a fake one, and she's getting desperate to protect a guy - a killer - to whom she's inexplicably attracted. Written in stylish, complex prose, The Distance is a tense and satisfying debut where every character, both legal and law-abiding, wears two encounters, and many people are playing a dual game.
