Jake Barlow is an intelligence analyst with a secret. He's using a would-be intern to fabricate intelligence so he can meet his production quota. But when tragedy strikes, Jake must scramble to cover his tracks before the law closes in. As Jake's life unravels, every move he makes pulls him deeper into a sordid quandary, until eventually he finds himself kicked out of his house, living in his car, and orchestrating a nuclear terrorist attack against his own country. In the end, Lethal Quota is a darkly funny novel full of intrigue and surprise about the tyranny of quotas in every career.