Anton Kalaydjian
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Getting shot his first few weeks on the job was the last thing Anton Kalaydjian expected…

So begins the astonishing story of how one summer night in Buffalo—shots fired in a crowded parking lot, people scattering, a single lump of hot lead punching a .40 caliber hole through his leg—set the stockbroker-turned-nightclub bouncer on the path to building one of the most elite celebrity protection outfits in the world. Written with co-author Alex Holstein, Guardian stands in the finest tradition of no-holds-barred memoirs that beat to the adrenaline-pulsed pace of a hardboiled, hero-driven, action thriller. From the VIP rooms of South Florida’s toughest nightclubs to the restricted backstage warrens of the world’s most famous concert venues, the favelas of São Paulo to the slums of Cité Soleil, the Billboard Music Awards to wartime Baghdad, Guardian plunges readers into an electrifying, deep-dive exploration of the uncharted shadows that ring the glitz and glam of the entertainment industry—and the secret lives of those who go to work every day “to keep the darkness out of the limelight.”

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