Some rules were made to be broken... or so Pete Maddox told himself as he fell in love with one of the CIA's most valuable and beautiful assets. "The Asset" is a high-octane CIA thriller set in Venezuela during the period leading up to the 2002 coup d'etat attempt against Hugo Chavez. Pete Maddox is the new CIA Station Chief in Caracas, Venezuela at a time when tensions are already high between the United States and Venezuela. The discovery of a joint Venezuelan-Libyan terrorist training camp in the Amazon jungles of Venezuela sets off a chain of events that will force Maddox to choose between loyalties to an organization that made him who he is, or the woman who makes him who he wants to be. Once the CIA has deemed her as an expendable asset, Pete Maddox is in a fight against time and anyone who stands in his way to find her before the ruthless head of the secret police, known as "The Sadist of El Helicoide" does."