In a heartbeat, a crowded auditorium or a city street can become a kill zone, where life and death are separated by a split second.  For Atticus Kodiak, professional bodyguard, the object is to keep people alive, and there is no margin for error.  Now Kodiak faces his toughest challenge: to protect a woman and her daughter from a killer with a fanatic agenda of his own....<br><br>Tense, taut, and as brutally real as this morning's headlines, <i>Keeper</i> marks the debut of a talented young writer of tough, unflinching prose--and the<br>beginning of an electrifying new series.