Anyone up for a Beta reading?

[ASparrow]

I'll have a new thriller called 'Vultures in the Playground' ready for Beta reading in a week or so. It will be a hair over 70,000 words when completed.
Zero fantasy content, unlike my other work.

Anyone who is interested will be given a coupon code to download it for free from Smashwords, after which I'll take it off-line.

Any errors you can point out for even some chapters would be appreciated. I seem to have a blindness for missing words and ending quotation marks in dialog.

Here's a blurb to help you decide:

Name: Archie Parsons. Occupation: Malaria consultant. Hobbies: Long walks at sunset in failed states.

That hobby nearly gets Archie killed when he is mugged fresh off a plane in Monrovia,Liberia. He is lucky to escape with only a scalp contusion and a stolen passport.

Turns out, these weren’t run-of-the-mill thugs. They work for a powerful and shadowy industrial consortium. Their goals: murder and identity theft. They seek Archie’s visas and connections to lubricate a killing spree of obstructive politicians and activists to be conducted by their prime assassin – a man named Black.

During a second attempt involving Black himself, Archie’s would-be killer is accidentally killed by a freak accident in an airport washroom. But the consortium assumes that their man prevailed. He’s Agent Black, after all.
They blindly shuttle Archie around West Africa, providing tickets and weapons and intelligence via briefcases left in luxury hotel suites. For a time he plays along, exploiting this mistaken identity to warn intended targets of their peril.

When the consortium discovers their error, they dispatch Black’s East African counterpart, a man named White, to set things right. Archie finds himself pitted against the most brutal corporate assassin on the African continent. The State Department won’t help him because he’s officially deceased and some of their people are consortium plants. The only person who comes to his aide is his cat-sitter Melissa, a young woman whose shadowy past makes her much more formidable than she seems.