He was one of their best agents. Now, to protect an innocent child, he's on the run from them.

Kin Decker is an agent for the Department of Planned Population Growth. His job is to hunt and "retire" those whose actions have caused the government to revoke their life certificates and place a bounty on their heads.

Normally these are violent criminals. But today Kin is showing a recruit that their profession carries untold dangers even in the simplest and lowest-value cases. Like investigating an infant illegally born.

They retrieve the baby without any trouble?except the trouble Kin brings on himself by not retiring the child immediately. That decision puts a bounty on his own head.

A fast-paced science fiction thriller, The Death Dealer follows Kin as he wrestles with the question of why he's chosen to spare this life even as he tries to survive being hunted by departmental agents and others looking to collect on the double bounty.

Karl El-Koura lives with his family in Canada's capital city, holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Goju Ryu karate, and works a regular job in daylight while writing fiction at night. In 2012, he independently published his debut novel, Father John vs the Zombies. He published the sequel, Bishop John vs the Antichrist, in 2015, and the final novel in the trilogy, St. John vs Death, in 2024.

Karl maintains an online home at http://www.ootersplace.com, where you can discover more work by him and keep up-to-date with his latest news. He can be reached at karl@ootersplace.com.