Irwin Award Winner 2013 #1 Goodreads Best Spy Novel 2013 Peyton Stone never quit his day job. But it's his other profession that might just get him killed. Islamabad. Baghdad. Shanghai. Kazakhstan, Kabul. Langley. For Peyton Stone, that's a work commute. But his is no normal job. On the surface he's a world-renowned security expert. But his real occupation is serving as a "nonofficial asset," a contractor working for the CIA when the government needs complete deniability. While advancing American interests globally, Stone discovers that those interests can exact a steep personal price. And...

A NASA scientist. A Russian hacker. A Secretary of State. What binds these people together? That's the tangled web in which Peyton Stone finds himself. On the surface he is a world renowned security expert, but his real job is serving as a "nonofficial asset," a contractor working for the CIA when the Government needs complete deniability. When a freak explosion at a California utility substation uncovers a connection to a brilliant but angry scientist, Peyton finds himself in Oman, Germany, and Russia piecing together the real story hidden deep in the covert cyber maze, on the hunt for the...