Prometheus deception. Robert Ludlum. 2000.

For years, Nick Bryson was the best operative for the ultra-classified cross-border intelligence agency known only to the spook community as The Directorate. Controlled by a few key figures in the US government, this elite organisation did what no other could and operated where no other could go.

But then one of Nick’s missions went seriously bad. A choice was given by his masters: retire or be ‘retired’. He walked away, satisfied that he had served his country well. Five peaceful years later he finds out that he was working for the Kremlin……

Enraged at his own stupidity , Nick is determined to find out the truth and bring down the whole operation. But, as he burrows deeper into the murky underworld of intelligence, terrorism and crime, he begins to see something far larger than he ever could have imagined. There is a world of terror being orchestrated by one conspiracy with one end: the control of a commodity more precious than any other.

INFORMATION.