That’s where the primary conflict comes into the story. He can’t walk away from someone who put her life on the line so that he could escape and continue his life with his young family. He has a high moral and ethical standard. Someone like Jenkins is exceptionally skilled in spycraft. At the same time, we are all individuals. You’re always making decisions that are best for your family. When you are married and have a good relationship and have kids, you don’t make decisions in a vacuum. And now I have a great family in my adult life. “It’s always been important to me,” Dugoni says. A trait he carries through all of them: his protagonists always have a strong sense of family. Like many authors, Dugoni has several continuing series. He has two things that automatically make him stand out: his hulking size and the fact that he’s Black. Since he’s a wanted man in Russia, surreptitiously returning is Jenkins’s first ordeal.

He owes it to her.”ĭugoni shows off a catch from a June outing on Washington state’s Cowlitz River with guide Bob Kratzer. “Doing so allowed him to go home to his child and pregnant wife. “Paulina Ponomayova saved his life,” Dugoni says. The way Jenkins sees it, he has no choice.

The plot for Book Two-THE LAST AGENT-is predicated on Jenkins’s ability to exfiltrate the foreign asset who helped him escape in the first novel. Doing so gave Jenkins a sound rationale to go back into the Cold.Ī fast, satisfying plot was born, along with the impetus for a series that will engage readers for a long time.

The author suggested pulling out just one line in the last chapter of the first novel. But with a larger-than-life hero and a timely plot, Dugoni’s publisher, Thomas & Mercer, saw immediately that it had a hit on its hands.ĭugoni was asked if he’d consider further storylines for Charles Jenkins. It was initially written as a standalone. This momentous event takes place in the series’s first installment, The Eighth Sister. Once there, he must exfiltrate the covert asset who almost gave her life for his. For retired CIA operative Charles Jenkins- the protagonist in bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s newest series-this means returning to the country he barely escaped: Russia.

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