Exit Strategy
Sometimes you just need to escape.But you can never, ever go back…Are you a crooked politician?A deposed dictator of a third-world nation?Or simply a white-collar criminal looking to avoid prison or a deadlier form of payback?If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then Exit Strategy is at your service. With just one call, Exit Strategy will assist all manner of wealthy-but-wanted types to disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology start-up, made the call to Exit Strategy, he thought he had no other way out. But after his exit, he begins to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision: was someone, in fact, working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.Exit Strategy is a globe-trotting thriller about the type of shadowy organisation that many have long suspected exists, but have never glimpsed inside … until now.Readers love Charlton Pettus:“couldn’t put it down”“It's quite brilliantly written”“The story is highly suspenseful and dangerously addictive”“highly readable, addictive”“A smart, highly entertaining page-turner.”“This is a very good novel. I'm surprised it's the author's first”“This is one of the best thrillers I've ever read”
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Sometimes you just need to escape. For crooked politicians, military brass from third-world nations, and white-collar criminals looking to avoid either prison or a deadlier form of payback, thereâs Exit Strategy. With just one call, Exit Strategy helps these wealthy-but-wanted types disappear completely. They can fake your death, give you a new name and face, and launder whatever ill-gotten funds you need to establish a new life on the other side of the world.
When Jordan Parrish, the brilliant founder of a medical technology start-up, made the call, he thought he had no other way out. With his marriage in shambles and his company on the brink of financial ruin, it seemed the only way to make things right. But after his exit, he began to wonder about the circumstances that led him to make that momentous decision: was someone, in fact, working against him? To find out, Jordan will have to break the cardinal rule of Exit Strategy: you can never, ever go back.
Charlton Pettusâs Exit Strategy is a cutting-edge, globe-trotting thriller about the type of shadowy organization that most of us have long suspected exists behind the scenes.
Exit Strategy
Charlton Pettus
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018
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As Jordan saw it there were only three options: nothing, the pills or the number. If he did nothing, he knew exactly how it would go. First heâd lose the company, then the house and finally his family, assuming you didnât count them as lost already. In a few months everything he loved would be gone.
Option B, then, the pills. Dr. Rosen had written the prescriptions after theyâd lost the baby. (Say her name. Elizabeth. Her name was Elizabeth.) Zoloft for Stephanie and sleepy red Seconal for Jordan. Steph had taken hers dutifully, almost mechanically, until the day sheâd simply stopped. Jordan had hoarded. He rolled the little bottle appreciatively in his hand. A dense solid sound, no hollow space for capsules to tumble. That good night held no terrors, far from it, but there were issues. The generous policy on his life wouldnât pay out in case of suicide, or as they euphemistically put it, âIntentional Self-Destruction.â The unraveling would carry on without him. Just another mess for someone else to clean up.
Which left only the number. Jordan smoothed out the piece of paper. It had been tucked in his wallet so long the creases had taken on a feathered, leathery permanence. In Dr. Rosenâs neat, even hand: âExit Strategyâ and the number. He typed the ten digits into the phone. They hovered on the screen, bland and banal. The clock said 12:34. Good omen. He pressed the green icon.
With that simple motion a cascade of chemical reactions started in his nervous system. Time seemed to slow to a near standstill; his ears buzzed and flushed. He had the distinct sensation of floating just behind and slightly above himself, tinglingly aware and alert but, at the same time, apart. Everything would be all right.
