After surviving attempts on his life in The Protege’s predecessor, The Chairman, Christian Gillete has risen in the corporate world to become Chairman of Everest Capital, a wildly successful company on the brink of taking over an ex-rival’s sinking ship and buying the NFL’s newest team, the Las Vegas Twenty-One’s. Only, disaster is starting to loom with Gillete’s young protege, David Wright, a man with a few skeletons in his closet, government spies wanting him to become involved in secret nanotechnology, and the mafia wanting to infiltrate his NFL franchise. To make matters worse, the events surrounding Christian’s father’s death in a plane crash 16 years ago are unclear. It’s a crowded plot, by author Stephen Frey holds The Protege together with deft skill and readers will be drawn in until the very last action-packed page.

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