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In a tense, fast-paced case-interview setting, Wharton evaluates applicants using coded signals, professional performance, and subtle assumptions about identity and competitiveness. Part One’s opening frames strategic “foreign internal defense” thinking alongside modern corporate maneuvering, setting up escalating conflict, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency themes across subsequent chapters.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,  \nevents, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2019 by Mike Freedman  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPublished in the United States by Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of  \nPenguin Random House LLC, New York.  \n[crownpublishing.com](crownpublishing.com)  \nHOGARTH is a trademark of the Random House Group Limited, and the H colophon is a trademark  \nof Penguin Random House LLC.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.  \nISBN 9780525573784  \nEbook ISBN 9780525573807  \nCover design by Matt Dorfman  \nCover photographs by (knives) © Don Troiani/Bridgeman Images; Two businessmen shaking  \nhands/Bridgeman Images  \nv5 .4_r1  \nep  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nEpigraph  \nPart One  \nChapter 1: The King Declares  \nChapter 2: Foreign Internal Defense  \nChapter 3: Unconventional Warfare  \nPart Two  \nChapter 4: The Golden Age of Terrorism  \nChapter 5: Counterterrorism  \nChapter 6: Counterinsurgency  \nPart Three  \nChapter 7: Black Friday, Black Flags  \nChapter 8: Advise and Assist  \nChapter 9: De Oppresso Liber  \nEpilogue  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIT IS THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR A MAN TO LOOK AS IF HE HAD A GREAT SECRET IN HIM.  \n—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick  \nWHO DARES WINS  \n—Motto of the British Special Air Service (SAS)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPART ONE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1 .  \nTHE KING DECLARES  \n“Not everyone is meant to be a CCGer,” Brock Wharton said to himself as much as to the staffer who fumbled with the applicant folders.  \nGreat consultants mastered the management of time. The muggy fall day that would usher the war home to the future managing director of Cambridge Consulting Group had commenced, like any other for change agent Brock Wharton, on the fast track.  \n“Next up in the holding pen,” Carissa Barnett said, pulling a manila folder from the stack.  \nHolding pen. She had not been on the job five weeks and already acted as if she were a veteran consultant with a short attention span. Confidence was contagious at CCG, even for the support. Wharton conceded to himself that the new twenty-five-year-old recruiting coordinator did carry adisproportionally generous bosom on her slender frame, which was managed expertly—the old conceal and reveal—in her pairing of formal business suits with blouses his colleague Piazza labeled “plunging.”Wharton waited for her to set down the folder she held out for him, as she exaggerated multitasking with God-knows-what application on her new smartphone that had transferred none of its claimed intelligence to its owner. That Carissa ran the task force to recruit a wider collection of out-ofthe-box thinkers troubled Wharton, who as a principal at CCG had pushed the initiative over the summer after feedback from a client critical of CCG’s junior-level consultants.  \nSeven of them sat erect in chairs in the four-walled glass room. From outside the fishbowl, their conversation buzzed like a horde of caught flies against glass. All faked pleasantries with the other applicants while nervously hoping their newfound friends fell flat on their faces during the case interview. Although these seven applicants had done their first-round interviews at the smaller Dallas office, Wharton recognized a couple of the applicants from networking events the Houston office had sponsored. Five guys and two girls. Or was that six male applicants and one female applicant? Wharton studied the cropped hair and suit style of the suspect candidate. 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