Author Philip Robinson blends reality with a dose of the outlandish in this fast-paced thriller: Kraken Corporation is too big to fail or control. Spreading its tentacles into every profit centre around the globe oil, gold, diamonds it takes what it wants and leaves behind a path of death and destruction. When Emma Baine, heir to Kraken, publicly announces her intention to end the corporation s history of profiteering, murder, and monopoly, a bomb explodes on the rostrum, killing her instantly. To her brother Carson, it s the perfect punch line to Emma s childish statement. He took out his sister, and now he s going to take over the firm. Using Kraken s private security force, a mercenary army that rolls over every obstacle to profitability, and the USS Alcatraz, an old Russian nuclear sub retrofitted into a gargantuan underwater prison, Carson imprisons everyone he perceives as an enemy while the highest figures in government turn a blind eye. But there s one obstacle Carson can t grind under his heel: an ex-Marine named Vaughan. As Emma s former lover and bodyguard, Vaughn is tough, smart and very angry."