Destroyer: A Foolkiller Novel

"For an instant Joseph went limp, for a moment he left this world for another until pulled back as violently as he'd been pulled off the floor--now the vice was at his neck, squeezing; now his skull crashed repeatedly into steel; now saliva and blood spit from his lips; now his fists pounded desperately at what held him, striking the hands, wrists, forearms, and face, clawing the eyes, nose, and cheeks until they no longer could from lack of oxygen, his fists transforming back into useless things as he returned back to the world from which he'd been pulled."

America the Beautiful--at no point in her history has she come closer to representing this sentiment than during the nine months culminating in November 3, 2009, when the impossible became improbable, when the improbable became a miracle of hope that briefly transformed a haggard America into the stunning beauty she was meant to be: it was on that day her citizens transformed themselves from dreamers into doers, and turned a young senator from Illinois into one of the most powerful men on Earth. But there were some who preferred her haggard, lords of chaos who profited from her diminished state: their tools Prostitution, Racketeering, Execution, Torture, Terror, and the corruption of Youth, they worked at destroying the dreams of a nation, dismantling hope for personal gain. In the months prior to that miracle--that miracle of hope--ex-CIA operative Joseph Tally waged war against the lords of chaos to make certain those dreams came true. This is Destroyer.