Fugitive

Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back in a twisting tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past . . . and into the crosshairs of a killer.
Charlie Marsh, a petty thief and con man, becomes a national hero when he rescues the warden of the state penitentiary during a prison riot, but it doesn't take long before he is on the run to escape a charge of murdering a United States congressman. Now, after twelve years of living in the African nation of Batanga, at the mercy of sadistic, power-mad dictator, Jean-Claude Baptiste, Charlie flees for home to face his murder charge, after Baptiste learns about his affair with the tyrant's favorite wife.
But it's not just the state of Oregon that's out to get Charlie. Criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe has her work cut out for her. She must keep Charlie off death row, protect him from the deadly head of Baptiste's secret police, and prevent him from being murdered by a shadowy killer who will stop at nothing to keep the truth about a decade-old crime buried forever.