Matthew Quirk makes his gripping thriller debut with The 500, a riveting page-turner set deep in the heart of the world’s most powerful political arena.

Mike Ford is a former con artist who’s been plucked from his Harvard Law School classroom to be an associate at The Davies Group, Washington’s most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm. Their specialty: pulling strings and peddling influence for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway, the men and women who really run Washington—and by extension the country, and the world.

The formidable namesake of the firm, Henry Davies knows everyone who matters; more importantly, he knows their deepest, darkest secrets. Davies’ experience goes back 40 years—he worked for Lyndon Johnson, jumped shipped to Nixon, then put out his own shingle as the Hill’s most cut-throat and expensive fixer. Now he’s looking for a protégé to tackle his most high-stakes deal yet, and Mike fits the bill.

Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of unimaginable power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out. But how do you save your soul when you’ve made a deal with the devil?