Deception
West Point. War College. Back-to-back tours in sandpit alley. And then what? Civilian life isn't for men like Landon Lewis.
Preston Lane, a corporate headhunting agency bankrolled by Uncle Sam knows the profile. Recruits get to stay on top of their game. Lewis signs on. Acting on a
tip, he foils a terrorist cargo hijacking at the Port of Long Beach. One insurrectionist down and another gravely wounded. When the cargo container is opened: a
rack of Stinger MANPADS is found, along with assembleable sections of a state-of-the-art ballistic missile.
By itself, the weaponry reaching American soil is startling enough. But it's the map of Washington,
DC with the White House circled in red that sends American intelligencia into a code red frenzy.
Chasing a wispy-thin trail, Lewis tracks down a sister cell only days away from launching an attack. Lewis thwarts the planned terror but soon afterwards
disappears, leaving behind only a key to a locker and a date for a Cairo meeting.
CIA Deputy Director Avery Holliston turns to Landon's twin, a State Department translator and stranger to the clandestine world. Using a velvet-lined
appeal based on a thin sliver of truth, Holliston convinces Pace Lewis to attend the meeting in his brother's place.
From the very moment Pace arrives in the Middle East, he's a marked man. Thrust into a dark, upsidedown web of his own brother's making, only the translator
can prevent Washington from being turned into a radioactive heap and anarchy spilling into American streets.
Deception - Chapter One