When Peter Gyges paddled out on a northern Minnesota lake, he was expecting to hook something with fin and scales. What happened instead was that he got hooked into something far more powerful than anything he could imagine. Slowly he learns what it means to act without fear of being discovered. That revelation transforms completely the decisions he makes, his ambitions and his understanding of his own power that lay dormant, deep in his psyche. Those recognitions metamorphose his life to one built on lust, greed and the pursuit of power. Along that arc lies ascension, intrigue, betrayal and murder. The Unseen Hand of Peter Gyges is a fast paced, suspense thriller rooted in the rise and fall of a man unwilling to reflect on and relinquish a seemingly unqualified advantage.