THE RECRUITER

A highly successful middleman who arranges contract killings is put on the spot when his latest success leads to a contract he really doesn’t want.

Rick Carter—not his real name, of course—is the man you call when you have a problem that requires a violent and decisive solution. Since drifting into this work years ago to support his wife, Denise, and their children, Maggie and Ethan, he’s brokered many successful arrangements between clients and hit men before and after abandoning the family he could no longer shield from the consequences of his lucrative practice. When his latest success—a double murder committed by rising star Ian Matthews at the request of mid-tier crime boss Leon White—brings him to the attention of bent Interpol operative Patricia Baum, he’s flattered but unwilling to arrange the deaths of six members of an international task force on trafficking: two from the FBI, two from MI5, and two from Mossad. Trish, who doesn’t care about his scruples, presses him to the breaking point, and he’s soon engaged Ghost and The Persian, a pair of seasoned professionals, to join Ian, allotting them two targets apiece. The situation abruptly gets more complicated when Ian calls to tell Rick that Trish has quietly added a third target to his list: Robert Baglioni, a Philadelphia homicide detective who’s engaged to Denise. So Rick bands together with his old friend Joey Walls, a well-connected seller of drugs and guns, and Erica Krieg, an aspiring assassin who’s been drummed out of the German Special Forces, to protect Rob and the family he’s convinced are in the sights of the A-list killers he’s just hired.

Enough action, killing, twists, and betrayals for a whole season of quality TV.