The book was a good read with a well thought-out plot concerning Mike Green, a renowned drifter with a penchant for writing detective stories but who could not commit to anything stable in his life preferring to spend his days drinking away and rabble rousing with his best pal, Tom Stockton who is the son of the Presidential candidate, Senator Richard Stockton. The story begins when he comes across a redacted file in the National Archives about a woman known as Delilah Green who was brutally murdered by a killer from a global crime syndicate. The book then goes off on myriad tangents bringing to the fore the ongoing happenings with his surrogate father, Senator Stockton, who has tapped into Mike for assistance in pulling Tom out of scandalous situations, his on and off again relationship with Kristin who is a Democrat working for Rick’s enemy, Rothschild, and his not so significant relationship with his adoptive mother who all contribute to Mike’s realization that his lack of stability in his domestic life mirrors that of Delilah’s. As he reads her story, he discovers that she is his twin sister left to fend for herself and her child after the murder of her lover, Dimitri and her brother, Sergei, and soon brings her into life in the form of a hallucination/delusion resulting from his continual recreational drug use. Although I found his discussions with Delilah to be outlandish, the reader gets the sense that he is really talking to himself and encouraging himself to continue/complete his mission to find out who he is and how Delilah’s life shapes him. The author whips up within a broader context elements of international intrigue and espionage, political sensationalism, patriotism, and loyalty and weaves it into the storyline with far reaching consequences for the manipulative characters surrounding Mike making the story a very engaging read. The reader is left to wonder what becomes of Mike with the erasure of his existence at the end and how his liability to Richard as an asset of Otto’s serves to underscore the reality that he has just become a classified asset of the CIA.