Severance Package
(St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008)
Some days, you could just kill your boss.
Guess what? The feeling is mutual.
Jamie DeBroux has just enjoyed a month’s paternity leave, spending time with his wife and newborn son. Now he’s back in the office on a hot Saturday morning in August for a mandatory 9 a.m. meeting.
But when Jamie arrives, the conference room is full of cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees gathered: “This will be news to some of you, but we’re a front company for a secret branch of the intelligence community. And we’re being shut down.” Jamie’s boss then tells everyone to drink some champagne, and in a few seconds they’ll fall asleep… for good. If they refuse, they’ll be shot in the head.
After panic sets in, and chaos erupts, nobody is sure of who to trust.
And Jamie quickly realizes that there’s only one way he’s ever going to see his family again.
The hard way.
PRAISE FOR SEVERANCE PACKAGE
"[A] kinetic story, which never stops moving...turbocharged entertainment." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
"Swierczynski writes a brand of thriller whose pacing forces us to reexamine our casual use of the word breakneck...This is essentially one long action scene that begs for the next Tarantino to direct. If you want your thrillers to be, well, thrilling, pop a big bowl of corn—you won't leave your seat until the end."—Booklist
“With pedal-to-the-metal pacing, characters who appear to be meek cubicle dwellers a la 'Office Space but are really cold-blooded, black-ops killers, and enough gut-churning violence to make a Quentin Tarantino movie look like a Disney musical replete with singing candlesticks and teapots, the dark, twisted energy in this novel is palpable.” –The Chicago Tribune
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