Kenig debuts with a high-octane thriller about a journalist who stumbles on an international terrorist plot. Decorated investigative reporter Kate Brennan travels to London to reunite with her best friend, Ruby Cunningham, who moved to England three years earlier for her job at the U.N. Soon after Kate arrives, she learns that Ruby was killed in a motorcycle accident—a tragedy made stranger because the bus that hit her seemed to do so intentionally. Kate then learns that Ruby changed her name when she moved overseas, and that her real employer was the CIA, not the U.N. With her hopes of a restful vacation dashed, Kate fires up her reporter’s instincts and discovers that Ruby was entangled in a plot to assassinate a real-life political figure. While the details of that plot, once they’re revealed, undercut the tension somewhat, Kenig provides plenty of interpersonal betrayal and gunslinging action to keep readers invested. This satisfies. (Self-published)