The first novel featuring CIA agent Blaine McCracken from the USA Today-bestselling author, "one of the best all-out action writers in the business" (Los Angeles Review of Books).



A space shuttle disappears during a routine repair mission, 180 miles above Earth's surface. An intelligence operative with a dark secret is murdered, his car set ablaze, while he is in the middle of fulfilling a depraved fantasy. And a reporter receives a message from a dying man that suggests the organization responsible may be one of the world's most prestigious corporations.