<b>Former Secret Service agent, Nick Averose, must expose a dark conspiracy in this electrifying thriller from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Matthew Quirk.</b>''Opens with a bang and keeps exploding for three hundred pages'' DAVID BALDACCI <b>His job is to protect them.</b>As a secret service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade guarding the most powerful people in the US. Now, he''s a mock killer, testing the security around the highest officials to find vulnerabilities, before America''s enemies can.<b>But now someone''s out to get him.</b>Nick''s latest assignment leads him to the home of a former CIA director. But when he breaches the director''s study, Nick is entangled in a vicious crime. One that will shake Washington to its foundations.<b>He''s the perfect scapegoat.</b>Nick needs to find out who is framing him for the crime and why. If he can''t uncover the truth, a dark conspiracy will consume him and everyone else within the Oval Office...Praise for Matthew Quirk:''