Banana Flower

In Black Orchid the beautiful sociopathic Ariella cut a swath of murders from Singapore to New York City ending with the murder of a senior FBI agent in a New York City hotel room. Banana Flower takes up the narrative with the FBI determined to track down the killer and calling prickly but talented former agent Eric VanDerlies out of retirement to lead the effort. He teams in an uneasy partnership with New York homicide detective Becky Haden. The two chase down their killer from Panama to Los Angeles and finally to a confrontation in Costa Rica. Ariella in the meantime has acquired a mansion on the French island of Guadeloupe, changed her alter ego identities and started doing work for a vicious Colombian drug cartel. As in "Black Orchid" her journey leaves a wake of corpses dispatched in a brutal but professional manner. With VanDerlies and Haden hot on her track will her murderous career finally be brought to an end?