Edward itibaren Baltinava Municipality, Latvia itibaren Baltinava Municipality, Latvia

First in a new series from the best selling authors. At age twelve, Gideon Crew saw his father declared a traitor and shot down by a sniper while his hands were in the air. At age twenty, called to his dying mother's bed, she reveals that his father had been a scapegoat to hide a screw-up. He was told of the man responsible and a promise of vengeance extracted. Education came first and the search for evidence next. Now in his mid-thirties, Gideon Crew is ready. He plans meticulously and carries out his ruination of the powerful man who'd framed his father. That's the first fifty pages of the book. then the main story begins. A shadowy private organization, affiliated with Homeland Security, has been watching him. They have need of his unique set of skills. He's hired to follow a Chinese scientist coming into the United States. Word is he's bringing plans for a new weapon that could give China, or whoever gets them, control of the world. They want to know, first, who he's here to meet and, second, to get those plans. Things immediately get out of control when he witnesses a black SUV chase down and crash the cab the scientist is riding. Gideon gets there in time to pull the man from the wreckage and write down a long string of numbers he rattles off. There's nothing else on him. The hunt is on for the "lost" plans, wherever the scientist hid them, the meaning of the list of numbers, and how it all ties together. The CIA is involved and a blues playing Chinese hit man named Nodding Crane is also in the mix.