Book Description

In Deception's Guard, DEA agent Skye Mathews is a celebrated DEA agent assigned to the South/Central America Region. A consummate bilingual actress and pilot her successes are renown in the DEA. She is assigned to her most difficult mission, that of guarding CEO Rhys Wielde of Genoreach Technologies, Inc. in his quest to bring his colleagues to justice after they create a deadly biological weapon. The mission of Genoreach is bioinformatics research and development and philanthropic endeavors. Despite not knowing the identity of his multi-disguised bodyguard, Skye and Rhys's adventures take them across America, Ecuador and Peru, through deceptions, assassins, betrayals, suspense--and an unexpected alliance.

Deception's Guard by Jacqueline Randolph begins as follows:

Prologue

Rhys Wielde paced erratically in his office, strong hands tightly locked behind his broad back. His explosive rage escalating as the full impact of the wrenching betrayals just revealed to him began to resolve in his mind. Genoreach Technology, Inc. was his company, the company he had founded shortly after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. How dare they? How dare they subvert his company? The sting of the bitter betrayal by those who must be of his trusted associates was nearly incapacitating.

Turning at the end of his circuit, Rhys suddenly looked up and caught sight of a wild-eyed man staring without recognition back at him. The sight of his own reflection in the window startled him. As usual, his thick raven black hair was tousled from the repeated raking of his hands as he habitually did when upset, a sure sign of his barely repressed anger. His well-defined features, set in a deeply tanned face, matched the savagery reflected in his errant hair. His expressive blue eyes glittered with determination, his nostrils imperceptibly flared from the effort of restrained physical violence, and his lips were pursed at the mental images of betrayal that flickered through his mind at lightning speeds. In exasperation he stepped forward and extended his large hands from behind his back and, arms outstretched, he wearily pressed his palms flat against the massive windowpane above his bowed head. Momentarily he assumed a posture of raging defeat as he continued to gaze down through the wall length window at the bustling business district of Memphis, Tennessee.