Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist someone Nick has never heard ofhas seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he'll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago.
At seventeen years old, Nick Horrigan made a deadly mistakeone that cost his stepfather his life, endangered his mother, and sent him into hiding for years. Now, what Nick discovers in that nuclear plant leaves him with only two choicesto start running again, or to fight and finally uncover the secrets that have held him hostage all these years. As Nick peels back layer after layer of lies and deception, buffeted between the buried horrors of the past and the deadly intrigues of the present, he finds his own lifeand the lives of nearly everyone he lovesat risk. And the only thing guiding him through this deadly labyrinth are his stepfather's dying words: TRUST NO ONE.
"[T]he page-to-page suspense and the breakneck pacing will please Hurwitz's growing audience." - Booklist
Hurwitz blasts new life into a well-worn theme - the prominent politician trying to hide a dark incident from his past - in this intelligent thriller." - Publishers Weekly
"Hurwitz puts the clues on the table, then plays the shell game with the reader and wins." - Kirkus
"Nick's personal journey will hook genre fans as surely as the fast pace, cutting-edge technology, and political machinations." - School Library Journal (Adult Books for High School Students category)
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Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 23 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he's written poetry, screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for AWA, DC, and Marvel, and political and culture pieces for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark and others. Gregg lives with his Rhodesian ridgebacks in Los Angeles, where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself.
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