Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Mystery Guild selection.

"Masterful." – Publishers Weekly, starred.

"At long last someone has done for executives what John Grisham did for lawyers." – Fortune.

"An all-too-realistic look at the corporate life with some thriller elements thrown into the mix. For all fiction collections." – Library Journal.

Jason Steadman is a 30-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant. He’s a witty, charismatic guy, and well liked at work – but he lacks the "killer instinct" that would move him up the corporate ladder. All that changes when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Jason gets Kurt a job in Corporate Security and soon good things begin to happen for Jason. His career takes off – he's an overnight success! But when Jason discovers that Kurt has been secretly paving the path to his success in a most efficient manner, he tries to stop him – and soon finds that his new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable.