Danger Route

Working out of the Isle of Jersey for logistical reasons, Jonas Wilde is an undercover assassin for the British government. His only three contacts in this job are Peter Ravenspur and Brian Stern with who he operates a boating company on Jersey as part of that undercover role, and Tony Canning who acts as their contact at Whitehall. Despite now being in a serious relationship in London with a young woman named Jocelyn, a market researcher, Jonas will often use his inherent being as a ladies man to carry out his work. He has already told Canning that after his next assignment, which came much sooner after the last case than usual, he plans to retire in losing his focus on such work, the retirement despite he only being thirty-seven. That case comes with an unexpected extra body in the form of Ravenspur's "niece" Mari. Although she provides enough information to show that she is being sent by some official source, Jonas doesn't fully trust her. That case is to kill a defector named Balin who is planning to make his way to the US under the Americans' control via Britain, Balin, unknown to the Americans, who is not as he purports to be helping the western cause. In working on the case, Jonas discovers that his life is in more danger than usual, he not expected to survive this mission by someone pulling some official strings. What he doesn't know is that if he miraculously does survive, "she" has been ordered to kill him.