No One to Trust, Iris Johansen
No One to Trust, Iris Johansen
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No One to Trust

Author: Iris Johansen

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2002


Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Final Target, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt—and the woman who is determined to hunt him down.

He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. And he has the means to get whatever he wants. And what Rico Chavez wants most is Elena Kyler—and he wants her dead. Trained as an assassin, Elena didn’t need anyone to survive. But now she finds herself on the run from one dangerous man and turning for help to another.

Sean Galen was a man without illusions. He knew it was only desperation that caused Elena to accept his help—a mother’s desperation to save her young son from a psychopath father who would raise their son in his own chilling image. And yet he was determined to get this woman who had never been able to trust anyone or anything in her whole life to accept him as her ally. But both Galen and Elena know that Chavez’s power and wealth mean there is no place they can be safe and no one they can trust—not even each other. Already Chavez’s assassins and connections to those in the highest positions of power have turned this into a war with no rules.

With two shocking acts of brutal violence, Chavez shows he will stop at nothing and that nothing will stop him. Soon a trail of horrifying murders will follow Galen and Elena across country to a last stand and a shattering showdown. For Chavez is a master of control and he wants more than just to take Elena’s life. He wants her alive long enough to see him destroy every reason she has for living. He wants her to turn against everything and everyone she ever believed in. He wants her to commit the ultimate act of betrayal. And by the time he is through, he wants her to beg him to take the only thing she’ll have left to give: her life.

About Iris Johansen

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, American author Iris Johansen went through the usual life duties of being wife and mother, until her children left home to attend college. In 1980, she began experiencing success with her writing of category romances. Next, Johansen started writing romance novels that had a historical and a suspense theme intertwined. One such novel was her successful, The Wind Dancer, published in 1991. Then, in 1996, she changed again, this time to crime fiction. To date, that has been her most successful genre. She has had seventeen consecutive New York Times bestsellers through 2006.

Johansen lives near Atlanta, Georgia, and has two children. Son, Roy Johnson, is an award winning screenwriter and novelist in his own right. Daughter, Tamara, serves as her mother's research assistant.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rashika (is tired) on January 23, 2014

Actual Rating 3.5 No One to Trust was surprisingly good. I was a little worried about giving Johansen a second chance after having most of my alarms set off when I read the The Killing Game. This book, while set in the same universe, was so much better in so many ways. For starters the female lead......more

Goodreads review by Chester on April 28, 2012

This is my second Iris Johansen book and my rating may be a little biased because I liked Galen since the first time I've read about him in Johansen's The Final Target. It's nice to actually get his POV and get an in-depth look at his character. The plot and pace of the story is good. It has suspens......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 28, 2016

I enjoyed a few Iris Johansen novels many years ago, but this one just did not ring true for me. I stopped a number of times in the first fifty pages saying to myself that the line I had just finished was 'not what they would say' or 'too cliché' or 'too old fashioned'. The book is near 15 years old......more

Goodreads review by Mel on February 12, 2011

Iris Johansen was brought to my attention by my aunt and while this has been the only book I've read by her, I have to say, it was pretty good. Her characters are all solid and well fleshed-out. Elena is one tough chick and I found her interactions with the various characters, particularly with her......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on February 06, 2019

A light read, equipped will all the usual kidnapping, betrayal, murder, mayhem, and sexual tension. Johansen let us have a peek into the minds of the two main characters, Elena and Galen, who were both quite intense and focused. I was surprised that Galen was so trusting of people, especially given......more


Quotes

"No One to Trust is vintage, fan-pleasing Johansen."—-Booklist