The Negotiator

The Negotiator is the first official book of Dee Henderson's O'Malley series.

Dave Richman, Sara's brother, is one of the two protagonists for this book. He is, if I remember correctly, an FBI agent and former head of his sister's security. Like his sister, he is also a Christian.

Kate O'Malley is the other protagonist, second oldest "sibling" in the O'Malley family. Like I said earlier, the O'Malleys are a group of seven orphans who adopted each other and legally changed their last names to become family. And like the other members of her family, Kate is most decidedly not a Christian.

Kate is a hostage negotiator, who also recently seems to be the victim of stalker, though no one knows why. Then her name is attached with a plane that explodes, and everything changes.

Kate helps in trying to solve the mystery of the bomber, and Dave pitches in too, unable to leave the woman he met during a bank-bomber-hostage situation, for lack of better knowledge on my part as to how to explain it.

Things start to dig into Kate's past, and she also has to deal with the knowledge that a certain member of her family is dying, but no one else in the family can know yet. Dave tries to get Kate to see that God can straighten these things out, but Kate is having none of it.

How on earth can this mess be solved to everyone's satisfaction? Find out in The Negotiator.