Close Protection

For fourteen months, Solomon Asante and Wes Kilbride have kept Tomi Haruno alive. Through stage doors and screaming arenas, through airports on four continents, the two bodyguards have walked one step behind the black-haired pop star with their hands on his back and their eyes on everyone else.

Solomon is forty, enormous, and never raises his voice. Wes is quick-handed and freckled and hums Tomi's songs off-key when he thinks nobody can hear. They have one rule they never break: you do not t...