Matt Hanklin has one wish: to live a normal life. Making that wish a reality is easier said than done. Being tired of the field operations, under constant stress to keep the true nature of his job a secret, and under the pressure to be ‘normal’ Matt decides to quit his job. An expert in chemistry and electronics, Matt’s job with the government as a support engineer takes on a much larger and far more dangerous scope just as he decides to quit. Matt is the only man left alive after a botched mission who can identify a dangerous and cunning terrorist. But quitting isn’t that easy. The government needs him for one last mission. He alone knows the face of the terrorist determined to strike against the West with a nuclear device. This knowledge will take him deep into the former Soviet Union, into the hands of the very man he is tracking.Ellen Sharon is crazy about Matt. He is the man of her dreams, the long sought for missing element in her hopes for “happily every after.” Only now Ellen is beginning to wonder if her knight may not be wearing tarnished armor. A robbery at church provides her with a new side to Matt’s nature, one radically different from the gentle, loving man she has known. Mysterious, unexplained phone calls and sudden trips out of town, coupled with Matt’s unwillingness to answer her questions lead Ellen to an unexpected and shocking conclusion: Not only is Matt not the man she thought he was, he is cheating on her.Formulating a plan of action, Ellen enlists the help of two well-meaning but less than brilliant friends. Her mission to expose Matt’s secret takes on more the tone of a “Lucy and Ethel” situation than a “James Bond” adventure, taking them step by step into a carefully designed government trap. While Ellen and her friends make one bumbling attempt after another to discover the secrets Matt hides, Matt is in the hands of a madman, being used as a pawn in a deadly game. It’s a lose-lose situation for Matt. He’s going to pay. The only question that remains is will he pay Double for His Sins.
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