Kate Stark

The head chef for the G-7 meeting at a luxury resort in the Scottish Highlands dies in the middle of a television interview. All fingers point to former Secret Service agent turned owner of Cooks Network, Kate Stark. At the same instant, a sugar sculpture chef dies horribly on-air in her New York studio. Her failure to protect the Vice President-elect during her years as a protection detail agent does not improve her standing.The FBI, the British Diplomatic Protection Group, a world-class Black Hat hacker, and an old friend from the US Secret Service all target her as Suspect Number One. Is it personal? Or is this a far more dangerous attack, perhaps targeting the Presidency?Kate's ragtag team of rugged individualists must pull together once more if she wants to survive. Previously published as Dead Chef #2, Two Chef! USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: "Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more." Booklist declared: "3X Top 10 of the Year." A project manager with a geophysics degree, he's designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50' sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

Ex-Secret Service agent Kate Stark owns the #1 cooking network on television. When a chef and a guest judge are poisoned on her show, all fingers point to Kateexcept she's nowhere to be found.Drugged, kidnapped, and loaded into a shipping container, Kate's next port of call? North Korea.From New York TV studios and her Chrysler Building penthouse suite to the Panama Canal and a DPRK smuggling ship, Kate desperately recruits her team as she races to stay alive: a geek, a Marine, her con-man twin brother, and a very handsome chef.It will take all their skills to survive.Previously published as Dead Chef #1, One Chef!