Defiance

Patricia Cornwell said J.S. Law's first novel TENACITY is 'addictively readable'. Now he returns with the second in the Lieutenant Danielle Lewis series. After events on board the submarine Tenacity, Lieutenant Dan Lewis of the Royal Navy's KILL Team was warned not to pursue those responsible. She was clearly told she had a chance to walk away, to stop investigating, but her thirst for justice means she can't let it go, however deep she has to dig through the layers of deception. But even as Dan defies the warning, continuing to track a sailor on the run, her investigative skills are needed on a new case. A young naval Wren has gone missing from the Warship, Defiance. Last seen going on board, but never seen leaving. There is no trace of the girl and Dan must work her way through a web of witness accounts to uncover what might motivate her to run, or what might motivate a predator to take her.Following in the wake of the missing girl, Dan must peel away the layers as she struggles to separate those who would tell the truth from those who would tell their truth. Dan soon closes in on her quarry, but is forced to question whether she is the one who was being hunted all along...