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The 13th Target

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2 of 2 copies available

Russell 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 Luguire's suicide, Mullins doesn't buy it.

His doubts are reinforced by Amanda Church, a former Secret Service colleague now in the Federal Reserve's 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 Luguire's 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 don't 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 America's financial system.

Twelve targets are known. The clock is ticking. What, or who, is the thirteenth?

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Keith Szarabajka is excellent at character portrayals. Here he narrates with drama and empathy for the characters and their situations in an earthy, low-key style. Russell Mullins, a former Secret Service agent who is now a private protection operative, is assigned to Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive. Then Detective Robert Sullivan calls to say Luguire has committed suicide, a development that stuns Rusty, who starts his own investigation with Sullivan and former Secret Service colleague Amanda Church. Szarabajka's delivery easily switches voices for genders and regional accents and provides pacing variety. He enhances the terrific conspiracy plot by using volume and speed to ratchet up the intensity. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2012
      Secret Service agent turned bodyguard Russell “Rusty” Mullins smells a rat when Paul Luguire, the high-level Federal Reserve exec he’s been protecting, apparently commits suicide in this taut political thriller from de Castrique (The Sandburg Connection). Once Rusty starts delving, with some cloak-and-daggerish help from former colleague Amanda Church, he quickly realizes there’s something very, very wrong—especially after one of the first people he interviews turns up dead with planted evidence pointing to Rusty himself. From here the perfidious plot kicks into high gear as Rusty and unlikely allies, including crusty Det. Robert Sullivan and investigative blogger Sidney Levine, race to foil a Fed-centered conspiracy that threatens to blow Washington sky-high. But Rusty must avoid getting arrested first. Plenty of action, convincing color, and sympathetic bit players—particularly a gutsy female hostage—help maintain reader interest even through some overly didactic passages about the Fed. Agent: Linda Allen, Linda Allen Literary Agency.

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