num_pages: 327
description: James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years.A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing the right man being in the wrong place at the right time.Desmond Aloysius Limerick (Dez to all) is a retired mercenary and enthusiastic amateur musician currently in Southern California enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled team attempts to kidnap the Chief legal counsel of Triton Expeditors a major military contractor  in fact Petra Alexandris is the daughter of the CEO  but their meticulously-planned seamlessly executed scheme runs into the figurative 'spanner-in-the-works' Dez himself.After foiling the attack and with nothing better to do Dez agrees to help Alexandris with another problem shes having  someone has embezzled more than a billion dollars from her company and left very few tracks behind. But Dez is a gatekeeper  one who opens doors and keeps them open  and this is just a door of another kind. And the door he opens leads to a dangerous conspiracy involving media manipulation militias an armed coup and an attempt to fracture the United States themselves. Theres only one obstacle between the conspirators and success  and that is Dez The Gatekeeper.
language: English
title: The Gatekeeper
publisher: Minotaur Books