Even (David Trevellyan series #1)

David Trevellyan takes a lonely late-night walk between a restaurant and his New York City hotel. A familiar huddled shape in the mouth of an alley catches his eye. A homeless man has been shot to death. Trevellyan steps forward...and a police car arrives.

A split second too late, Trevellyan realizes he's been set up. But Trevellyan isn't worried. He's a survivor from the shadowy world of Royal Navy Intelligence. Used to working undercover—sometimes with the approval of his masters, and sometimes not—he's been in and out of trouble a thousand times before. But the NYPD quickly hands the problem to the FBI. Trevellyan is sucked deeper into the system.

And just when he needs them most, his bosses in London turn their backs.

Obliged to clear his name, he acts alone. With no idea who's a friend and who's a foe, he penetrates deep into a huge international conspiracy. The price of failure will be death, and the reward for success will be redemption, both for himself and the huddled corpse from the alley. The motivation will be his cherished life-long belief:

You don't get mad—you get EVEN. -- Publisher description

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