Beckham O'Neil has been moved from foster home to foster home, nothing in his life has been stable for him, except for his running. Everyone has him stereotyped as the quiet trouble-maker that sits in the back of the class. The only two people that are willing to give him a chance are Lacy, the nice studious girl, and Coach Westcott, who makes him join the football team.

Terror...a word that bears many connotations, most of them not so pleasant. Deep from the shadows comes what the world should fear most, an organization with a means to plunge the globe into chaos, where societies are ripped apart by modern warfare and countries fall to dominant nations. The Shroud is run by a trinity, a trio, of mastermind assassins who work in tandem at crippling societal and political constructs that keep the general state of mind sane. Who can stop them? Crack CIA agent, Avery Carter, who works in the Special Activities Division, is pulled from his home only a day after completing a mission in Iraq, to investigate a recent murder of a man working within the ranks of Mexican drug cartel. What he finds is that there is an evil at work. As he delves into the depths of the most complex enigma of activity that is orchestrated masterfully by what is the Shroud, he realizes that what they plan to do is more horrifying than what anyone could ever imagine. -The epitome of thriller. This novel will keep the reader tenaciously hooked into its alluring plot line, and will not let go until the reader has finished.