Publisher's Weekly Review
If Green was as obvious on the football field as he is in the writing of his latest thriller (after The Letter of the Law), his NFL career would have been a lot shorter. The first clue to what's going on in this story about a former Secret Service agent trying to investigate and avenge the death of his son comes early on, followed almost immediately by three more thuddingly obvious markers. Any chance they will prove to be red herrings quickly disappears: they are all exactly what they seem to be. Too bad, because the basic premise is sound and promising: Kurt Ford, former Secret Service agent and successful computer entrepreneur, knows his beloved son, Collin, better than anyone, and is ready to stake his life on the certainty that Collin an able and ambitious Secret Service agent himself would never commit suicide, as the Washington, D.C., police have concluded. So when a former rival within the Treasury Department, David Claiborne, contacts Kurt secretly and tells him that two other Secret Service agents have also died under mysterious circumstances, it's definitely possible that all three agents witnessed something they shouldn't have when they accompanied the president to a clandestine meeting at a Maryland farmhouse. As Kurt uses his own experience to plan a private vendetta, fans of Green's previous books might hope for and certainly deserve a few more plot twists and a much more interesting resolution. Instead, they are served up an all too predictable finale. 3-city author tour. (Feb. 4) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
The fourth perimeter is composed of Secret Service agents protecting the president, and, here, in the latest from pro-football player-turned-writer/lawyer/commentator Green (The Letter of the Law, 2000, etc.), Kurt Ford intends to breach it. Former SS agent turned wealthy businessman, Ford has just proposed to young dream-date Jill when he learns that his Secret Service agent son is dead. While it's officially judged a suicide, Kurt doesn't believe it, and when he learns that other young agents met similar ends, the only clue points to the president himself. Kurt investigates and machinations unfold, while the real bad guys, an unsuspected old friend and his hired gun, hover and watch. A likable character in a standard genre exercise.
Library Journal Review
It's bad enough when widower Kurt Ford is told that his son, a secret service agent, has committed suicide. But it's even worse when he discovers that his son may have been murdered and that the President is involved. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.