Bud Stigall

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The center of conversation during coffee breaks around office watercoolers, at bars and restaurants, on talk shows and in newspapers, is the FBI's number three national priority only after terrorism and counterintelligence - computer crime. A firestorm unlike any other in Internet history has suddenly erupted and is sending a shockwave across the globe with no end on the horizon in the foreseeable future. ENTER CENTER STAGE: Secret Circle, a novel based on these current real-life events. Grant and his crew discover a secret brotherhood operating under the color of authority within the highest level of the federal government, but not before Grant himself becomes the target of the secret circle that will use all their power to stop him - dead. Proving his client is not a master criminal within a worldwide syndicate involved in extortion, fraud, money laundering, and murder, catapults Grant into the midst of the secret circle, whose members are as cunning as they are formidable. Grant's run-of-the-mill case soon leads to dangerous discoveries, woven into a vile whirlpool of criminality far beyond conspiracy theories that only Judith Osborne, the Attorney General of the United States, can stop before his last chance of clearing his longtime friend Kyle Miller of the multi-count federal indictment is ripped away. Now with only days remaining to prove Miller is innocent, Grant and the Attorney General are hurled into a chase of surprising jeopardy, and toward the volatile reality about the secret circle's identity. They quickly learn that even though the secret brotherhood has self-issued "special get-outta-jail-cards" there are systematic master plans even murder can't hide. After matching wits with the brethren for weeks, their menacing plot and skillfully disguised internal hierarchy of soldiers, captains and the don crystallize for Grant and the Attorney General.