The Quiet Man

He survived twenty years as a professional killer. Now he has to survive a grocery store.

Wendell Cruse is the best operative the Consultancy has ever deployed. In twenty years he has never missed a target, never broken protocol, never been remembered by anyone who passed him on the street. Meticulous. Invisible. Ruthlessly efficient.

Then his handler calls.

It's done. You're retiring. Effective tonight.

Not dead. Not burned. Just retired. There's a furnished apartment in Chicago, a temp job at...