Breaking Free
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Publisher Description
Ryan Butlers once promising baseball career came to a crashing end twenty years ago. Now, hes an unhappy lawyer in an unhappy marriage. His life is going nowhere until an old friend of Ryans is found comatose on a park bench. This old friend, Steve, vanished from work earlier that day with a quarter of a million dollars. The money is mysteriously missing and the police have no clues.
Dazzled by Steves gorgeous young wife, who may or may not be as innocent as she seems, Ryan risks everything to find the truth behind his friends coma. His quest leads him to the California wine country, to a strange scientific experiment in Wisconsin, to the halls of power in Washington, and finally to a small island in the Caribbean.
On the island, Ryan stumbles into a CIA plot to capture a rogue agent in the act of selling a terrifying new weapon to a foreign government. Will Ryans search for the truth botch the CIAs operation? Ryans life and the worlds balance of power are at stake in this fast-paced thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1986, Lubitz's competent series kickoff introduces lawyer Ryan Butler, a former baseball prospect. On track to be named partner at a prestigious Philadelphia firm, Ryan is increasingly estranged from his wife and alienated by his work. One day, in an effort to save time on his drive back home, he leaves the highway and ends up in Middleton, Md., in front of the insurance business of an old teammate, Steven Shannon. When he calls Steven's home, he's stunned to learn that his former teammate is in a coma, and that right before he lapsed into unconsciousness he emptied his personal and business bank accounts. The tragedy puts Ryan in contact with Steven's stunner of a second wife, Alana, and his attraction to her motivates him to seek the truth about what happened to her husband. His efforts soon attract the attention of the CIA. Lubitz does a good job of keeping things moving, though not always plausibly, especially toward the end. (BookLife)
