Steven M Silver

Woman On the Wire Steven M Silver

Ellen Parker, now a Philadelphia journalist, is contacted by an old story subject, Iraq veteran Elizabeth Chernov. Elizabeth and a young girl are on the run from the drug-gang killers of her family. Ellen and Elizabeth try to find safety with the local and Federal authorities, but the gang's leader has a source close to Elizabeth and the killers are closing in, trying to remove the last witnesses. And the most dangerous of the killers is a man who has left murdered women hanging on barbed wire fences from the Carolinas to southern Pennsylvania - hired and hidden by the gang, he is put on the trail of Elizabeth and the young girl. To feed his dark hunger and fulfill his contract, he uses Ellen as his unwitting guide to hunt Elizabeth and the girl; Ellen is suddenly in a life and death struggle to avoid becoming another woman on the wire. Woman on the Wire is the third novel in the Ellen Parker series.