Jack Sullivan

Carl Timmons was given 24 hours to decide what he wanted to do. This was a tactic. Twenty four hours to sit alone and think about all the money he could want and the price he’d pay for it. And 24 hours to also contemplate what Andre Savin might do to him before he...

Andre Savin and Lincoln Palmer had met on several occasions and had the type of relationship you’d expect between two men of their standings on the billionaire scale. Contemptuous but also understanding. They were both driven by the same desire—access to...

Belfast, New York - 1889 They called him The Boston Strong Boy—arguably the first real boxing star and one of the highest paid athletes of his time.  He’d always been good at school. He attended Boston College where his parents thought he might pursue a life in the...

Kuwait, 1990 I’m launched out of a submarine a few miles off the coast of Kuwait City. When I swim to shore, I quickly change into my dry land clothes—a full burka. I was a six-foot-one Marine posing as a good Muslim woman. The catch, beneath the modest...

Keith and I left the scene like we found it: the two kidnappers dead on the floor, their shotgun up against the wall, and the rope used to tie up Carl Timmons sprawled out on the floor. We tipped off local law enforcement and were gone before they arrived, leaving no...

Cyprus ~ 2006 Ali Hassan was a low-level operative in Hezbollah, but we had it on solid authority that he knew where three high-level leaders of the terrorist organization were hiding. Keith arrived fifty-seven hours into Hassan’s interrogation and by the looks of it,...

Carl Timmons: CISO of Illuminating Solutions, a data analytics firm, forty-seven years old, never been married. Last Thursday, Carl arrived in San Jose on business. He was picked up by a company car and driven to The Manifeld Hotel. He was last seen leaving the hotel...

I’m sitting at a table in one of the offices of my private security firm in a tense, but now familiar, setting. No matter who the client is, there’s always a strange energy when extremely wealthy and powerful people are asking you to accomplish the seemingly...