In Countdown, Jane Maguire is a student at Harvard who has managed to elude serial killers in the past twicea real believable premise to begin withand now people are trying to get her again.  If you detect the sarcasm, its because this novel has a major failing in believability.  This time Jane is targeted because she resembles Cira, a concubine of Julius Ceasar, who was alleged to have a major cache of gold given to her by Ceasar.  All of these nefarious parties are after the gold, which for some reason Im supposed to believe that they would think she would know about because of her resemblance.  Its a ridiculous premise for a ridiculous novel.