The Fourth Order Author:Stephen Frey Michael Rose is the chief financial officer of a top energy company headquartered in Washington, DC. At forty-two, he is the odds-on favorite to become the next CEO. He is also the proud father of two kids, and hes about to find out just how far hed go to protect them. Rose is working hard to acquire a global information technology company. What... more » he doesnt know is that the company is a cutouta company used as a pawn by intelligence agencies. The plan has met resistance from two of his board members, though Rose has never known why, and the IT company is also trying to avoid being acquired. But he pushes ahead, unaware that hes tightening the noose around his own neckespecially when one of the complicit foreign governments realizes hes about to discover their involvement.« less