OUTSIDER Former black ops CIA operative Colby Lane, now retired from his wild yearsas a mercenary, has found his new calling as assistant chief of security for the mammoth Ritter Oil Corporation. All he wants is a new start. What he discovers, though, is that the past is never far behind. Colby is soon enmeshed in plans to trap a notorious drug trafficker, and it seems that his ex-wife, Sarina Carrington-whom he so cruelly left after one day of marriage- may be more involved than she's letting on. Not only that, but Sarina has a six-year-old- dark=eyed daughter whose father is mysteriouslyabsent0 or is he?