David Baldacci’s much-loved protagonists Sean King and Michel e Maxwel are having trouble adjusting to life in the wake of the terrible events that drove them to the brink in HOUR
GAME. Dogged by hidden demons from her past, then almost kil ed in a barroom brawl, Michel e agrees to try therapy at a mental-health facility, where she simultaneously busts a criminal drug-dealing ring! Meanwhile, to right their shared career in the private security sector, Sean accepts an offer to investigate a mysterious death at a scientific think tank cal ed Babbage Town, located suspiciously close to the CIA’s infamous yet covert training camp — “The Farm”. In Babbage Town, the security is tight as the world’s scientific geniuses race to invent technologies powerful enough to conquer the most sophisticated microprocessor. Michel e soon joins Sean, and before long both find themselves pawns in a terrifying game whose elusive players cite threats to national security as justification for their most heinous crimes.
THERE ARE FOUR ACKNOWLEDGED WAYS of meeting your maker: You can die by natural causes including il ness; you can die by accident; you can die by another’s hand; and you can die by your own hand.
