High Treason

“McFatejust might be the next Tom Clancy, only I think he’s even better... The actionis non-stop and shuttles back and forth between scary-believable and rollickinggood fun. I read High Treason during a six-hour plane ride and the tripwent by like the snap of my fingers.” —James PattersonIn this pulse-pounding action thriller perfectfor fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci,Tom Locke must stop dark forces working tooverthrow the presidentEn route to the National Prayer Breakfast, theU.S. vice president’s motorcade is hit in a vicious,expertly planned attack that throws Washington,DC, into chaos. Everyone assumes it’s terrorists—everyone but young FBI agent Jennifer Lin. She is certainthat the easy answers here are not the likely ones. . . . Halfa world away, former military contractor Tom Lockehas his own doubts about what happened—and who didit. He suspects his former employer, Apollo Outcomes.But why would the global private military corporationorchestrate such a brutal strike on U.S. soil?Returning to DC, Locke teams with Lin anddiscovers that a civil war is secretly brewing in themilitary-contracting world. A division of one companyhas gone rogue, led by a power-hungry former colleagueof Locke’s who may have planned the attack on the vicepresident himself. But this man couldn’t have pulled itoff without help from inside the government. The VP’sitinerary and route were confidential—which means theremust be a traitor high up in either the White House or theNSA who is leaking information.But why? And who could be pulling the strings?Radical Islamic terrorists? Or is this a new ploy by Putinto subvert American leadership? Or is someone elsebehind the attack? Only Locke can get to the bottom ofthe conspiracy—and blow it apart with one bold strikebefore it’s too late.“High Treason hasbrutal assassinations, shocking betrayals, even heated gun battles in theshadow of the White House. It had me breathless—from the sheer audacity of itsstorytelling to its breakneck pacing.It’s not to be missed!” —James Rollins, #1 NewYork Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey