In the stand-alone novel Edge, an agent for a secret government agency, tasked with protecting US citizens who have been targeted by mercenaries who will either kidnap, torture, threaten, blackmail, or even kill, is assigned to protect a local cop and his family from the man who killed his mentor.  While trying to keep his charges safe, the agent works to find out how he can capture his nemesis and figure out who has hired him to target the family under his protection.  Can he figure out which family member is the target before it is too late?

This is the third one-off work from Jeffery Deaver that I’ve read, following The Devil’s Teardrop and The Blue Nowhere, and the best thing I can say about all of them is that I would be willing to go on another adventure with the characters if he was.  In this outing, he (I presume) makes up a secret government agency or two and gives them a reason for being.  While I can see how a second go-around has the potential to be monotonous, I think there is enough there to do another version in a different enough way to be entertaining.  But, after twelve years, I assume that ship has sailed.