โ Scribed by Andrew Peterson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Ten years ago, a botched mission in Nicaragua ended covert ops specialist Nathan McBrides CIA career. Now he utilizes his unique skill set in the private sectoruntil the night Frank Ortega, former director of the FBI, calls in a favor. A deep-cover federal agent has vanished, along with a ton of Semtex explosives, and Ortega needs them foundfast. Because for him, this mission is personal: the missing agent is his grandson. And Nathan McBride is the only man he trusts to save him.
But it quickly becomes clear that something bigger than even Ortega could have imagined is at stake. Within days of accepting the assignment, McBride finds himself trapped between a ruthless adversary hell-bent on revenge and a group of high-ranking federal officials who will stop at nothing to reap their own brand of justice. Here there are no rules, no protocol, no backup. Only McBride
A native of San Diego, Andrew Peterson won his first pellet-gun shooting competition at a young age, launching an award-winning competitive career in marksmanship and eventually earning the classification of Master in the NRAs High Power Rifle ranking system. A trained architect, he began writing fiction in 1990 and sold his first short story, Mr. Haggartys Stop, to San Diego Writers Monthly two years later. His debut novel, First to Kill, has allowed him the opportunity to visit veterans hospitals around the country, and he has donated more than two thousand copies to wounded warriors and troops serving overseas. He and his wife, Carla, live in Monterey County, California.
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