“Vail is within the mold of Lee Child’s Jack port Reacher and Robert Crais’s Joe Pike….This guy has movie written around him.”

-Chicago Sun-Times

“Enthusiasts of Sam Spade and Jack port Reacher will experience right at home with this new hard guy.”

-Boston Globe

“We have a fresh American hero in Steve Vail.”

-Patricia Cornwell

Steve Vail, previous discarded covert operative and the FBI’s brand-new go-to man for the toughest careers, profits in Agent X-the pulse-pounding follow-up to the explosive New York Occasions bestselling debut thriller by Noah Boyd, The Bricklayer. A previous FBI agent himself, writer Boyd pulls out all of the stops in Agent X-as “the Bricklayer” hunts down an elusive Russian spy in a taut and genuine thriller that rivals the most effective of Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Stephen Hunter, and Robert Ludlum.