In this international thriller, Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a perception management firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. A shadowy operative, Shaw, allies himself with a disgraced female journalist in an effort to thwart Creel's evil plot

"The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"--