David Stokes is retired from the Army as a Master Sergeant of the Special Forces division and a MIT graduate student. While David is researching a college project at the university, he hears a commotion on the floor below him and discovers an adversary from his past and uses his military expertise to neutralize him. David enlists the help of Anne Giordano, an MBA student from Princeton and executive assistant for millionaire Ray Clementine, the owner of a private security agency. Clementine has been contracted by the government to disrupt an international incident between the Russians and the Czechs that could put the United States at risk. Clementine hires David and assigns Anne to be his partner in dismantling the risks and the two are drawn into a game of international intrigue and dangerous missions. When two of David's old associates, a former special ops soldier, and a Soviet defector, make contact with them, old secrets, long buried, have David and Anne wondering who they can trust. As the scope of their mission becomes clearer, the two realize that they are simply pawns in an international game of enormous proportions that could destroy more than they ever dreamed possible. Bill Westlake's thriller, spanning five countries, takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of twisting plotlines that casts doubts on who the enemy really is and will have suspense fans anxiously anticipating the sequel. Author Bio: Bill Westlake is a writer, veteran, and systems engineer. Mr. Westlake is currently writing the sequel to his novel and lives with his wife and their two daughters in Michigan.