

government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. Read onlineĪmerica has enemies-ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch.Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero\'s broken romance his conflict over selling out for financial success the prosecutor\'s confused love-hate for her burglar father the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22 the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff and the old burglar\'s determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel\'s center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president.


A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world\'s richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire\'s trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation\'s chief executive.
