Alarm Author:Ariel Jennifer Jones An electriying and entertaining new thriller from the author who made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List — ALARM — Escape artist Allen Cage is finally out of prison, this time the legal way. He takes a job at--of all places--a security firm catering to L. A.'s upper crust, set up by his good friend, ex-FBI agent Larry Tw... more »iford.
Selling alarm systems to the rich and famous turns out to be a risky business, and soon Cage is caught up in a struggle between a blackmailing psychopath and a respected L. A. businessman. His beloved Caprita is suspended from her head nurse job when a hospital patient mysteriously OD's on cocaine; a few days later his good friend is brutally murdered in a gem heist. Unraveling the connection between the two violent deaths draws Cage into a moral dilemma in which doing the right thing might cost him everything--his precious freedom, his love, even his life.
Edward R. Jones has been called "the Houdini of jailbirds." After receiving a ten year sentence for a minor brush with the law at age seventeen, he became the nation's foremost escape artist and the only person ever to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list without a record of physical violence. After completing his first novel, Cage, in prison, he was released and now lives with writes in L. A., where he is working on his third Allen Cage thriller.« less