Retribution

Retribution

“How hard can it be?” asks down-on-his-luck ex-cop Neal Devlin when he takes a plum job as the security director of a Fortune 500 company headquartered in a forty-story Manhattan office tower.<br />This hard: <br />In less than two weeks Devlin will discover that a killer is targeting the company’s CEO and that the building is accessible to entry and sabotage at a hundred critical points. With the help of a feisty and tough-talking female computer specialist and an ex-con, Devlin struggles to secure the building’s severely vulnerable security system. <br />And in less than three weeks, after a series of mysterious “accidental” deaths of certain employees, the killer will be revealed as a world-class assassin, expert at penetrating the most sophisticated security system.<br />A highly sensitive deal-in-the-works prevents Devlin from going to the police, though all his instincts scream for him to do so. <br />With time running out and bodies piling up, Devlin finds himself trapped at the summit of the skyscraper pitting his skills against a well-armed madman with nothing left to lose.<br />Retribution features a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at high-tech surveillance and executive protection; an affecting portrait of a hard-edged loner, Neal Devlin, who believes he has just one more chance to get it right; and a frightening bathyscaph descent into a modern corporation where “acceptable causalities” has secured a foothold. <br />At once an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller and a parable of cost/benefit accounting taken to its extreme, this is a page-turning fiction at its best.<br />