It debuted at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list[1] with competition from The Da Vinci Code and won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel in 2007.

Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old salesman, modest and industrious, who loves his wife Kate very much and wants to succeed in his work.

But, as his boss makes clear to him, Steadman lacks "Killer Instinct" - the limitless ambition that will allow him to climb the ranks.

Everything changes when Steadman meets Kurt Semko, a special forces combat soldier who has just returned from the Iraq war.

From that moment, Steadman's luck improves remarkably, while his opponents encounter a strange succession of serious mishaps.