A Time for Dying continues the Phil Pfeiffer Thriller series when Lisa Calendar, a beautiful Las Vegas singer pleads for his help. A mobster ex-boyfriend has ordered she travel to a little Kansas cow-town with no good explanation, a trip she's convinced will end in her death.No so long ago, the boyfriend's thugs ran him out of Las Vegas after he'd spoken with Lisa. The irony and danger are not lost on Pfeiffer, yet she proves persuasive. After all, she already occupied most of his dreams. A road trip romance finds the two in Kansas and considering a vague future. An ill-chosen word ignites a formidable Lisa and leaves Pfeiffer alone in a dark motel parking lot. Refusing to quit or be fired, he narrowly avoids an assassin's bullet when he trails her to the epicenter of a billion-dollar criminal conspiracy. In this award-winning sequel to Hunt the Shadow, Phil Pfeiffer must choose between his own life and that of the murderer. In the end, he decides to take both.