First to Kill

First to KillTen years ago, a

botched mission in Nicaragua ended covert ops specialist Nathan

McBride’s CIA career. Now he utilizes his unique skill set in the

private sector—until the night Frank Ortega, former director of the FBI,

calls in a favor. A deep-cover federal agent has vanished, along with a

ton of Semtex explosives, and Ortega needs them found—fast. Because for

him, this mission is personal: the missing agent is his grandson. And

Nathan McBride is the only man he trusts to save him.

But it

quickly becomes clear that something bigger than even Ortega could have

imagined is at stake. Within days of accepting the assignment, McBride

finds himself trapped between a ruthless adversary hell-bent on revenge

and a group of high-ranking federal officials who will stop at nothing

to reap their own brand of justice. Here there are no rules, no

protocol, no backup. Only McBride…