NEW YORK, March 4, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- What seems to be a simple CIA rogue operation turns out to be much more than hitman Roper ever imagined. Commissioned by two CIA agents, Roper gets mixed up with a bizarre group of deadly characters and a murder setup in Gordon Deverowe's new crime novel, The Marauder Betrayals (now available through 1stBooks).
Two men, Reynolds and Adams, set up a rogue CIA operation by hiring a hit man, Roper, from an advertisement in House and Gun magazine. Cautious, Roper sends another man, actor Jeff LaSalle, in his place to meet the two agents. Roper, being the crime savvy hit man he is, takes pictures with a telephoto lens to identify the two men and has them followed. However, he doesn't count on them following Jeff to New York.
As Jeff is withdrawing money from the bank, he's murdered on the street. An hour earlier, a murder takes place across town, accidentally killing a New York politician's aide, Roger Brent, in an attempted assassination of Congressman Tim Melford. Reynolds and Adams try to pin Jeff as the would be assassin, however this simple set up turns into an intricate, tangled mess of witnesses and evidence when a New York detective sees the CIA planting the gun. To complicate matters even further, a cable news reporter and a messenger delivering a soap opera script to the dead actor hold the key to the whole mixed up mess.
The Marauder Betrayals reveals the strange circumstances around this disasterous CIA operation and Roper's search for answers.
Deverowe has worked in a variety of fields, including advertising, insurance and the oil industry. He has written six additional books under this pen name, including Fatal Contract and The Odessa Concessions, and several under the name Chris O'Grady.
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