The Paladin

CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like afront for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operationunlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere andanyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.Dunne knows it’s illegal to run a covert op on an American citizen or journalist, but he has never refused anassignment and his boss has assured his protection. Soon after Dunne infiltrates the organization, however, his coverdisintegrates. When news of the operation breaks and someone leaks that Dunne had an extramarital affair while onthe job, the CIA leaves him to take the fall. Now a year later, fresh out of jail, Dunne sets out to hunt down and takevengeance on the people who destroyed his life.