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Dead Man Switch

By: Matthew Quirk
Narrated by: Peter Coleman
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Summary

Someone is hunting down America's most elite special ops soldiers - in their homes.

A deadly fall on a rugged stretch of California coast. A burglary gone wrong in Virginia. These incidents seem unrelated, but the victims were living undercover, their true identities closely held secrets. They are members of a classified team, the last line of defense against foreign threats. Now someone is assassinating them one by one, taking out family members and innocent bystanders to make the deaths seem like accidents.

Captain John Hayes, a special operations legend, has left the military to settle down with his family. But when he pieces together a pattern behind the murders and discovers that his protégée Claire Rhodes, a brilliant assassin, is the prime suspect, he returns to duty to unmask the attackers.

With every success, the killers grow bolder. Their ultimate goal: lure Hayes and his remaining fellow soldiers to Manhattan, to eliminate them all in a single devastating strike. To save his teammates and thousands of innocent lives, Hayes must find a way to stop a seemingly unstoppable weapon.

Dead Man Switch delivers nonstop twists, turns, and action in a high-stakes thriller about what happens when the fight abroad follows our covert operators home - and their painstakingly constructed double lives are shattered.

©2017 Matthew Quirk (P)2017 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Dazzling.... Right up to the tense finale in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, Quirk never strikes a dull or off-key note." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Quirk's deft plotting and superior action scenes are what make the book tick. But the author also has a nice way of getting the most out of his characters and his varied locales without falling back on clichés. An excellent follow-up to Cold Barrel Zero, this is a standout thriller." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"A fine thriller.... Quirk is a master at organizing details - smoke, a chill wind, a splash of water - to create suspense.... Fans of special-ops thrillers will devour this latest entry in Quirk's fiery action series." ( Booklist)

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