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Learn moreRussell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife died of cancer, Rusty quit the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a private protection company in Washington, DC, and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and chief liaison with the US Treasury. Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of the night with word of Luguireās suicide, Mullins doesnāt buy it.
His doubts are reinforced by Amanda Church, a former Secret Service colleague now in the Federal Reserveās cybersecurity unit. She uncovered a suspicious financial transaction initiated by Luguire only days before his death. He authorized the transfer of unrequested funds from the Federal Reserve to a regional bank. Even stranger, after Luguireās suicide, Amanda finds the transaction has been erased from Federal Reserve records; the regional bank now shows the money wired from an offshore account in the name of Russell Mullins. Someone is setting Rusty up. And when the bank president is murdered, Mullins rockets to the top of the suspect list.
In an age of Wall Street meltdowns and a downgraded US credit rating, the secretive Federal Reserve is compromised. Mullins and Church donāt know whom to trust. Evidence points to an external terrorist attack, but the web of deceit appears woven from within and threatens to destroy the heart of Americaās financial system.
Twelve targets are known. The clock is ticking. What, or who, is the thirteenth?
Mark de Castrique is the author of the Washington, DC, political thriller, The 13th Target, and author of the critically acclaimed Barry Clayton and Sam Blackman mystery series, both set in the mountains of his native North Carolina, and as well as mysteries for young adults. He is a veteran of the television and film production industry and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbinsās Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
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ā[A] taut political thrillerā¦Plenty of action, convincing color, and sympathetic bit playersāparticularly a gutsy female hostageāhelp maintain reader interest.ā
āThis is a fine, action-packed thriller with a very timely theme. With terrorists, bankers, reporters, and the Secret Service involved, readers will trust no oneānot even the reportersāand keep turning the pages.ā
āThis intricate thriller from de Castrique offers a good deal of interesting and timely information on the Federal Reserve.ā
āA fast-moving mystery that keeps the reader in suspense right to the endā¦de Castriqueās writing is rich in its approach as he creates a plausible, thought-provoking plotā¦fantastic.ā
āA timely thrillerā¦Mark de Castrique provides a fascinating conspiracy tale.ā
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