First in the slam-bang series featuring a bodyguard with special forces skills. “If Jack Reacher were a woman, he’d be Charlie Fox.” —Lee Child Charlie Fox was no good at being the nice girl her parents wanted, so she joined Her Majesty’s military and acquired a new set of skills. Now she puts them to use teaching self-defense to battered women in a refuge. Her talents come in even handier when she takes a job working security at the New Adelphi, a hot new club with an enigmatic owner. And they come in handiest of all when a rapist appears to be targeting the women at the refuge, and someone with a very nasty line in knife-work starts stalking Charlie’s friends. Praise for Zoë Sharp and the Charlie Fox series “Zoë Sharp is one of the sharpest, coolest, and most intriguing writers I know. She delivers dramatic, action-packed novels with characters we really care about.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author “The bloody bar fights are bloody brilliant and Charlie’s skills are formidable and for real.” —The New York Times “As action-packed and streamlined as the Suzuki the main character, a self-defense expert, rides. Zoë Sharp has an apt last name.” —David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author “Male and female crime fiction readers alike will find Sharp’s writing style addictively readable—one of the very best crime fiction sagas out there.” —Chicago Tribune “I highly recommend this series!” —Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author “Sharp’s heroine Charlie Fox has to be one of the best characters in the crime thriller genre.” —CrimeSquad