"To reach the peak of his profession and remain the powerful chairman of Everest Capital, New York's most successful private equity firm, Christian Gillette has had to pay his dues. Now, with Everest's fortunes continuing to skyrocket, there's no reason on earth for one hard-charging Gillette to look back. Except one." "A mysterious man who claims to represent "certain interests in Washington, D.C.," has approached Gillette with a cryptic offer – involving the only currency more valuable to him than money: information about the mother he never knew and the truth about his father's suspicious death. All Gillette has to do to access the secrets of his past is play ball with a shadowy government agency that's guarding a new technology that could be humanity's greatest tool…or its deadliest weapon of terror." "Complicating matters are David Wright, Gillette's aggressive young protege, who's hiding a horrific secret, and Allison Wallace, the feisty scion of a mega-rich investing family who's bought her way into Everest and has a taste for control and an eye on more than the bottom line. The last thing Gillette needs is to be the target of more cutthroat corporate subterfuge – or a pawn in cloak-and-dagger national security games. But laying his private demons to rest is the one thing he wants, and that's a reward for which he's willing to take any risk."–BOOK JACKET.