Reincarnation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798897660711)

Reincarnation is the fifth novel in the CIA series that continues the story of

former CIA clandestine operator Woody Stressel and the beautiful KGB

agent Ava Volkov. With CIA help, the two protagonists have once again been

reincarnated, this time as young medical doctors in training. Six years have

elapsed since the now-married couple escaped from Mexico and a planned

horrible death by members of a Chicago mafia. The woman, Kinzie Reichert, is a

pediatric oncology fellow, and her husband, Ben Reichert, is a general surgery

resident. Their goal to live quietly and anonymously is disrupted when the

couple's young daughter is attacked by a rude, ten-year-old bully at the park.

This forces Kinzie to resort to her KGB training to disable the boy's threatening

father with a well-placed kick to his anatomical nether regions and a followup

head smash. The father, Gregor Ivanovich, is a powerful Russian criminal

lawyer and vows deadly vengeance.

As the story evolves, a number of unexpected deaths of wealthy people occur,

with surprisingly rapid autopsies by the medical examiner. His denier raises

questions about the fraudulent death reports and becomes the victim of a

mysterious fall from the tenth floor of the hospital tower. Ben and Kinzie befriend

a nerdy MD/PhD pathologist who is working with a new Russian compound that

initially seems to cure childhood leukemia, but causes rupture of the ascending

aorta four weeks later with a horrible and painful death. The three new friends

are suspicious that the dead people may have been surreptitiously fed the

compound as part of an ingenious murder-for-hire operation involving the

medical examiner, as well as the Russian lawyer.

The plot becomes ever more compelling when Ben and Kinzie meet an old friend

at a wake at a shady funeral home on the outskirts of town. This old friend

brings added fire power to help protect the doctors from hired killers. Interest

mounts as unusual new characters appear and become caught up in the web of

dangerous intrigue. The denouement of the story is utterly unpredictable and

will leave readers guessing until the final chapter.