Are You A Patriot?
Would you save a country that never loved you?
Xander Hale and James Halloway built a billion-dollar media empire out of nothing. Twenty years side by side, on an understanding neither of them ever said out loud: Nobody was coming to save them.
Then federal troops open fire on protesters in Detroit, live on national television. Three weeks later, Xander calls out those in power from a stage in Washington full of senators and the men who sell the government its wars. He never reaches his car.
The people who take him don't appear on any organizational chart, and they have a job for him. Since Detroit, James has been converting a lifetime of contacts into a private army. Their target is the President of the United States, and Xander is the only man alive close enough to stop it.
Now, the man who has spent decades taking power apart on camera will be trained to work for it. The deeper he goes into what James built, the clearer it becomes that his friend didn't build it alone. The plot against the President is just the kick in the hornet's nest. Behind the threat stands something older, richer, and patient enough to wait for a frightened country to hand over the keys.
Xander Hale has grown rich in a country that has never once made him feel safe. Now it wants him to save it...
Are you a patriot?
Are You a Patriot? is a political conspiracy thriller for readers who follow the news as closely as they follow their fiction. For fans of Joseph Finder, Brad Meltzer, David Baldacci, and the moral compromises of John le Carr . If House of Cards, Enemy of the State, or The Night Manager is in your watch history, Xander Hale belongs on your bookshelf.
Praise for Are You a Patriot?
"A fast-paced tour de force Xander Hale is part Orphan X, part Jack Bauer, and all-American. Thompson and Batchelor have crafted a conspiracy thriller that perfectly captures the current political climate and exposes the true nature of power...and those who'll do anything to keep it. Bring on the next book "- Michael Laurence, author of The Extinction Agenda series
Book One of the Xander Hale Series. Includes a reading group book club guide and a link to the free prequel, "Nobody's Coming."
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