Publisher's Synopsis
He'll Kill You is a dramatic, hair-raising adventure, alive with extraordinary people only L. A. Johnson Jr., can weave into the strange exotic southern state of Virginia and the Caribbean. A colorful suspenseful novel. Set in Hampton Roads Virginia just after the retreat from Saigon, this exciting spy story tells of two Americans fleeing for their lives into the wild, high country of the Virgin Islands. Thirty days after Pierce Cordoba married Brittany Newby, he was drafted and went off to war. A sudden assignment of the CIA in the summer of 61 sent him off to write war stories, before Brittany could join him, there he had vanished. Pierce disappeared completely, with last reports indicating that he had become a spy. Soon after the war was over, Brittany moved to Hampton Virginia, where she eventually found an unfamiliar and much changed Pierce. Shabby, harassed, strangely secretive about his past, She thought he was in trouble. Filled with striking bits of local color, this tingling escape story depicts the turmoil and tension of a post-war American spy facing the trials of the cold war.
