“Life would have been beautiful if there weren't any problems.”
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For those chosen to fight terrorism at its source, secrecy is the only imperative - a rule Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to find out the hard way.<br>Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, Agent Waller gives up a life he thought he understood to dive headlong into a violent world of trapdoor truths and shifting alliances where the greatest threat may be his own sense of right and wrong.<br>He is not alone. Sirad Malneaux - a beautiful executive at one of the world's top telecommunications companies - turns out to be more adept at murder than marketing. Her true role as a CIA nonofficial cover operative will turn a simple assignment into a secret Waller can never divulge.<br>Jordan Mitchell, CEO of Borders Atlantic and one of the world's richest men, threatens to trade national security for market share by selling a new encryption technology to the Saudis. His shameless love of money is surpassed by just one other passion - a passion only Jeremy is capable of discovering.<br>Senator Elizabeth Beechum, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and front-running presidential candidate, vows to stop Mitchell at any cost. Unfortunately, even her security clearances and insider status cannot protect her from being charged with an unspeakable crime.<br>Racing from the FBI's secret training rooms to Arabian deserts, from the halls of Congress to the back rooms of Wall Street, and told with a voice only an insider like Christopher Whitcomb could summon, Black lifts the curtain on a world of secret operations, corporate manipulation, and classified technology. It is a world where everything you thought you knew about justice comes to an end - a world where Agent Waller discovers that sometimes the only way to get out of the darkness is to head even deeper into the shadows.
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