The Fourth Watcher

"Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his Looking for Trouble series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancee, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let go of Poke. Enter the one person Poke least wants to see in the entire world - a person whose emotional hold on Poke is absolute. With him come a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers, and - in pursuit of those things - one of the most dangerous gangsters in China." "Add to that Rose's innocent involvement in a North Korean counterfeiting operation and an off-the-tracks agent of the American Secret Service who's dying to put Poke behind bars, and Poke and his family find themselves in a complicated and potentially deadly situation. Getting them all out alive will take every skill Poke has."--BOOK JACKET.Hallinan, Timothy is the author of 'The Fourth Watcher', published 2008 under ISBN 9780061257254 and ISBN 0061257257.