The Killers - The Max Grannit Stories, #2

The KillersGranite is one of the toughest materials known to man. You need special tools to work it. Max Grannit is tough too: he has to be to survive the trouble he keeps getting himself into. Now, fresh from his ordeal at the hands of the black hats, Grannit is looking for a quiet life. But then he saves the life of a beautiful young woman in a New York street. Soon, he is heading for more trouble, big trouble, in fact, when he agrees to act as the young woman's bodyguard.
Grannit soon finds himself first in London and then in the south of France, living luxuriously in each of those places, but also living dangerously. Killers seem to abound wherever he and the mysterious young woman go. They are professionsl too; whereas he is an amateur... Cannes.A journey through danger to an explosive conclusion. About 61000 words.