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  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Thrillers / Espionage
  • Language:English
  • Pages:400
  • eBook ISBN:9798350974201
  • Paperback ISBN:9798350974195

Lethal Quota

By Leo Keats

Overview


A down-on-his-luck intelligence analyst is struggling to meet his production quota when he gets embroiled in the death of an FBI informant and must escape justice long enough to stop an apocalypse he put in motion. Lethal Quota is at once a close-to-the-bone satire on national security, an exposé on the ethics of quotas, and a propulsive spy thriller.

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Description


Jake Barlow is an intelligence analyst with a secret. He's using a would-be intern to fabricate intelligence so he can meet his production quota. But when tragedy strikes, Jake must scramble to cover his tracks before the law closes in. As Jake's life unravels, every move he makes pulls him deeper into a sordid quandary, until eventually he finds himself kicked out of his house, living in his car, and orchestrating a nuclear terrorist attack against his own country. In the end, Lethal Quota is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the tyranny of quotas in every career.

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About The Author


Little is known about Leo Keats, if that is his real name. He first surfaced in Bosnia as a US Army sapper in the mid-1990s, according to a clandestine source claiming secondhand access. He worked at Interpol in the mid-2000s, judging from direct and reliable signals intercepts. After that, the trail goes cold. Rumors suggest he lives a quiet life, working on a sequel.

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