Keller in Shining Armor

So here's your life: You bide your time and walk your dog and take each day as it comes, and every now and then the phone rings and you wind up going somewhere and putting Person A out of Person B's misery. It's a life, and it's a living, but what do you do when the phone stops ringing and the assignments stop coming?

For Dot, the voice on the other end of those phone calls, the answer is self-evident. The old man who was both her and Keller's employer, was losing it big time. Time to turn pro-active. Time to place an ad in Mercenary Times.

And who do you suppose responds? A damsel in distress, remarkably enough. Her name is Cresside Wallace, and her tale of woe is enough to send Keller halfway across the country, a veritable knight in shining armor.

And wouldn't you know it? Things, it turned out, were not what they seemed...

"Keller in Shining Armor" first appeared in the November 1995 issue of Playboy before taking its place as a chapter in Hit Man, the first of five episodic novel to feature Keller.


Genre: Mystery