A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times
bestselling author of the Donovan novels
Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham
Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As
she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely
escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead
companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen.
But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a
strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures like
nothing Ryan has ever seen. Is she some sort of savant, or the most
cunning spy he's ever met?
Meanwhile, in Egypt, archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty
tomb that shouldn't exist, filled with Mayan epigraphy, mathematics, and
materials that didn't exist 3,000 years ago. As a result of this
discovery, Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France--along with
the sarcophagus they have found--are snatched away to a hidden lab to
solve the enigma of a man lost in time.
As dark forces gather, Alpha makes an impossible escape from Grantham.
Ryan quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance, but with a
team of unique allies, sets out to prove his innocence. Together, they
must find Alpha and save Ryan before it is too late.
