Tears of the assassin
(Book)

David Diegert is a young man of mixed race from a dysfunctional family mired in modern American poverty. Following a dishonorable discharge from the US Army, Diegert becomes a contract killer for Klaus Panzer, a man of incredible wealth intent on using his clandestine organization to make himself the master of the global economy. Panzer has a convoluted plan to destroy the value of the US dollar. To do this, he tasks Diegert with a high-profile assassination. David is reluctant to complete the mission, but Panzer manipulates him at the critical moment by thrusting upon him an impossible split-second decision. Using worldwide media, Panzer publicizes Diegert s crimes. Suddenly Diegert s the world s most wanted man who., while on the run, forms an unlikely alliance with a talented and resourceful CIA agent. She is drawn into Diegert s dangerous world when she learns that the plot forcing his actions is more devastating than anyone could imagine.