THE INNOCENTS CLUB = TAYLOR SMITH
Book Cover: Who Are the Innocent? 1964 - American literary giant Ben Bolt dies penniless in a Parisian garret. 1996 - Socialite Renate Hunter Carr washes up dead on a California beach. Two lovers, their deaths separated by 30 years and 10,000 miles. Inextricably linked by a secret someone will kill again to protect. Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt never shared his fans' enthusiasm for her late, famous father, Ben Bolt. The world revered him as a literary genius. Mariah remembered only the man who abandoned his pregnant wife and 7 year old daughter to run off to Europe with another woman - Renate Hunter Carr. But like it or not, Mariah become the reluctant guardian of the Ben Bolt legacy - never knowing she'd inherited a ticking time bomb. Widowed, preoccupied with her troubled teenage, Mariah is about to leave on a much-needed vacation when she is handed an urgent assignment - to lure a man into betraying his country. There's only one hitch - to get to the man,...