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DEAD MAN SWITCH

Matthew Quirk

DEAD MAN SWITCH is a breathlessly paced high-stakes thriller with a tangled nest of politics, double-crosses, and government conspiracies.
A deadly fall on a rugged stretch of California coast. A home invasion gone wrong in Brittany. No one connects the killings because the victims are living under cover, their true identities closely–held secrets. They are members of America's most select kill/capture team, which combines special operations lethality with CIA tradecraft. They are the last line of defense against foreign threats, and someone is assassinating them one by one where they sleep, taking family and innocent bystanders to make the deaths seem like accidents.

Captain John Hayes, a special operations legend, has left the military and spent the past year at home with his family. Once he uncovers the pattern behind the killings, he returns to the field to protect the men and women he once worked with. One of those women, Claire Sutherland, draws suspicion for her brilliant abilities as an assassin, and vanishes into thin air. Meanwhile, the attacks on Hayes's team members grow bolder, the killers conspiring to draw them into Manhattan by orchestrating a devastating attack on Independence Day.

Hayes and his teammates are racing against the clock to save their own lives, and thousands more.
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Published 2017-03-01 by Mulholland

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Published 2017-03-01 by Mulholland

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Quirk's writing drips with the kind of eye for the telling detail that only a canny reporter, detective or spy possesses.