Book excerpt: Meet Agent 57, a veteran combat specialist with the highest security clearance from the US government and all its friendly nations. Never seen but only rumored to exist in the dark shadowy world of extreme security and high value targets. A brilliant expert in geopolitics, covert operations and operating knowledge of every secret weapon whose existence is completely denied by all government agencies. A chap trained to survive the harshest of weathers, the deadliest of hungers and the toughest of tortures. A gentleman born to uphold the liberty and freedom of all its innocent citizens. A man who never hesitates to take up any impossible task anywhere in the world. An unwavering patriot with such extraordinary talents that sets him light years apart from the crowd of mediocre secret agents you normally read in thriller novels and movies. A man that every president from the last three decades has blindly trusted his or her life with, until he succumbs to that one fatal temptation that nobody ever dreamed a trustworthy agent like 57 would do.