Kovas Duane A cold-blooded killer for hire who dresses in cashmere twinsets and pearls, Kovas Duane looks nothing like what she is: a ruthless hit man. Which is probably what makes her so effective. When Kovas was 12, her mobster father was assassinated in a gangland-style drive-by shooting in Miami -- right before Kovas's eyes. Whether through anger, a twisted sense of revenge, or some as-yet unplumbed criminal pathology, the apparently amoral Kovas developed an obsession with tidiness combined with violence ... and struck career pay-dirt by hiring herself as a "Pressured Negotiation Tactician" for the East Coast underworld. Her specialty: "disappearing" people, disposing of them so no part of them EVER comes back. When you want to make someone disappear ... you call Kovas Duane.