Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel, Evanovich Janet

Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How shell pull it all off: top secret.

Trenton, New Jerseys favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now hes out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the citys hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killers whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesnt want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Polettis bookkeeper and knows all his bosss dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Polettis list of people to put six feet under.

To top things off, Ranger--resident security expert and Stephanies greatest temptation--has been the target of an assassination plot. Hes dodged the bullet this time, but if Ranger wants to survive the next attempt on his life, hell have to enlist Stephanies help and reveal a bit more of his mysterious past.

Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a days work for Stephanie Plum. The real challenge is dealing with her Grandma Mazurs wild bucket list. A boob job and getting revenge on Joe Morellis Grandma Bella can barely hold a candle to whats number one on the list--but thats top secret.