From the author of the international bestseller The Blue Max, a riveting high-tech tale of the mid-1990s. Tom Sweeney, at 42 a pensioner from Department of Defense Intelligence, is confounded when a dead man turns up in his house on Chesapeake Bay, an old friend and CIA agent who's used his dying blood to scrawl a message on the bathroom tile. But what does it mean? And why was he there? The search for answers may kill Sweeney and his lovely friend Cap O'Brien very quickly, and change the face of America forever. Unless Sweeney can run fast enough...