The Fourth Order

Zusatztext Praise for Stephen Frey The Power Broker Exciting . . . The action roars along like a small tsunami. Publishers Weekly An intriguing and fast-paced read. bookreporter.com The Protégé When it comes to high-finance intrigue! this series continues to look good on the bottom line. Booklist Fast-paced thrilles! chills . . . The Protégé won't disappoint. San Antonio Express-News The Chairman [Frey's] best yet . . . twists galore! great action and crisp dialogue. With his lively writing and cynical humor! [Frey] is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed! folly and deceit. Forbes High-stakes power play at its most ferocious level. Read it! Donald J. Trump From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Frey Klappentext National security! terrorism! and human rights-these explosive issues lie at the heart of Stephen Frey's riveting new thriller! a high-octane novel of suspense! revenge! and intrigue. Dynamic chief financial officer Michael Rose is looking to add an exciting and profitable new dimension to energy conglomerate Trafalgar Industries via the major acquisition of CIS! a global information technology company. But it's far from a done deal! thanks to fierce resistance from CIS! and from certain members of Trafalgar's own board! to Rose's takeover proposal. But Rose isn't about to sacrifice his best shot at the score that could land him in the CEO's chair. While swiftly scaling the corporate ladder! Rose has played the big business power game expertly enough to know he has the moves to outmaneuver the opposition. But what Rose doesn't know is the truth about his latest adversaries at CIS-that they are linked to an organization hell-bent on a twisted mission and are lethal to anyone who stands in their way. The Order! an ultra-secret shadow government agency! was founded by high-level administration officials in reaction to the assassination of President Lincoln. Nearly 150 years later! the group was galvanized anew by the worst act of terror ever perpetrated on American soil-and pushed to dangerous extremes by the specter of fear . . . and the taste of power. The Order had always been sanctioned to manage national security at all costs! by any and all means! without consequences. But behind the sleek veneer of CIS Technologies! the fourth and newest incarnation of The Order not only maintains the ultimate nationwide surveillance and intelligence-gathering system! but conducts officially licensed covert operations rife with torture and murder-all in the name of freedom. The mission cannot and will not be jeopardized! even if innocent lives must be sacrificed. Unfortunately Michael Rose doesn't yet realize that his hardball tactics have made him the Order's number one hard target! and his penchant for playing to win has brought him unwittingly into a deadly duel with an enemy more powerful than he can imagine. In a world where the rule is kill or be killed! Rose's rep for sealing deals might just seal his fate. Leseprobe 1 Present Day My God, Michael Rose murmured. He'd been off in another world, thinking about that day five years past when he and Sheila had been arrested at Dulles airport. Thinking about how deeply it had affected his life, how it had shaken his faith in his government. How it had taken a year to get to the truth behind what had happened. Amazing. David Cortez glanced up, following his boss's line of sight. Cortez had been about to pick up his beer off the smooth, dark-wood bar but stopped with the chilled glass halfway to his lips. Jesus, he said softly with a hint of a Cuban accent. Rose tried not to stare, but he couldn't help himself. He'd spent an entire career keeping his nose an inch from the grindstone, doing the right thing, shun...

Praise for Stephen Frey

The Power Broker

“Exciting . . . The action roars along like a small tsunami.”
–Publishers Weekly

“An intriguing and fast-paced read.”
–bookreporter.com

The Protégé

“When it comes to high-finance intrigue, this series continues to look good on the bottom line.”
–Booklist

“Fast-paced thrilles, chills . . . The Protégé won’t disappoint.”
–San Antonio Express-News

The Chairman

“[Frey’s] best yet . . . twists galore, great action and crisp dialogue. With his lively writing and cynical humor, [Frey] is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed, folly and deceit.”
–Forbes

“High-stakes power play at its most ferocious level. Read it!”
–Donald J. Trump

From the Hardcover edition.

Autorentext

Stephen Frey

Klappentext

National security, terrorism, and human rights-these explosive issues lie at the heart of Stephen Frey's riveting new thriller, a high-octane novel of suspense, revenge, and intrigue.

Dynamic chief financial officer Michael Rose is looking to add an exciting and profitable new dimension to energy conglomerate Trafalgar Industries via the major acquisition of CIS, a global information technology company. But it's far from a done deal, thanks to fierce resistance from CIS, and from certain members of Trafalgar's own board, to Rose's takeover proposal. But Rose isn't about to sacrifice his best shot at the score that could land him in the CEO's chair. While swiftly scaling the corporate ladder, Rose has played the big business power game expertly enough to know he has the moves to outmaneuver the opposition. But what Rose doesn't know is the truth about his latest adversaries at CIS-that they are linked to an organization hell-bent on a twisted mission and are lethal to anyone who stands in their way.

The Order, an ultra-secret shadow government agency, was founded by high-level administration officials in reaction to the assassination of President Lincoln. Nearly 150 years later, the group was galvanized anew by the worst act of terror ever perpetrated on American soil-and pushed to dangerous extremes by the specter of fear . . . and the taste of power. The Order had always been sanctioned to manage national security at all costs, by any and all means, without consequences. But behind the sleek veneer of CIS Technologies, the fourth and newest incarnation of The Order not only maintains the ultimate nationwide surveillance and intelligence-gathering system, but conducts officially licensed covert operations rife with torture and murder-all in the name of freedom. The mission cannot and will not be jeopardized, even if innocent lives must be sacrificed. Unfortunately Michael Rose doesn't yet realize that his hardball tactics have made him the Order's number one hard target, and his penchant for playing to win has brought him unwittingly into a deadly duel with an enemy more powerful than he can imagine. In a world where the rule is kill or be killed, Rose's rep for sealing deals might just seal his fate.

Zusammenfassung
National security, terrorism, and human rights–these explosive issues lie at the heart of Stephen Frey’s riveting new thriller, a high-octane novel of suspense, revenge, and intrigue.

Dynamic chief financial officer Michael Rose is looking to add an exciting and profitable new dimension to energy conglomerate Trafalgar Industries via the major acquisition of CIS, a global information technology company. But it’s far from a done deal, thanks to fierce resistance from CIS, and from certain members of Trafalgar’s own board, to Rose’s takeover proposal. But Rose isn’t about to sacrifice his best shot at the score that could land him in the CEO’s chair. While swiftly scaling the corporate ladder, Rose has played the big business power game expertly enough to know he has the moves to outmaneuver the opposition. But what Rose doesn’t know is the truth about his latest adversaries at CIS…