DV Berkom is the USA Today bestselling author of action-packed, riveting adventure and crime thrillers. Known for creating resilient, kick-ass female characters and page-turning plots, her love of the genre stems from a lifelong addiction to reading spy novels, action/adventure stories, and thrillers. A restless soul and adventurer at heart, she spent years moving around the US and traveling to exotic locales before she wrote her first novel and was hooked. More than a dozen books later, she now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Mark, and several imaginary characters who like to tell her what to do. Her most recent books include the Claire Whitcomb Westerns: Retribution, Gunslinger and Legend, and Leine Basso thrillers Fatal Objective, A Plague of Traitors, Shadow of the Jaguar, Dakota Burn, and Absolution. DV's currently hard at work on her next [...] more information, visit her website at [...] To be the first to hear about new releases and subscriber-only offers, go to: [...] For film and TV inquiries: [...]