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Thirteen Across

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 512 sider

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THIRTEEN ACROSS. Seven stops. Seven sets of clues. A race against time. Covert medical research. Will FBI Special Agent Kate Morgan survive it? It starts with an unfolding puzzle and Thirteen Across.

Kate Morgan is on an Orange line train when it is bombed. Phillip Barnes has made his attacks on the nation's capital personal. Thirteen Across is an ominous sign of the events to come. Kate finds herself thrust into the center of a grander conspiracy.

Barnes reveals an unfolding puzzle--its challenge charts a course, one that expires at midnight. Puzzle solutions and destinations expose a dark past built on illegal human research and a quest for the Perfect People Initiative. Kate must log the tours. She's charged with saving those that she can. If she survives, the final destination is a place for Kate to atone for her past sins. She's murdered a killer's family, and there are consequences for that.

The FBI brings in real-life puzzlemaster, Will Shortz, to riddle out stops, while Kate works the frontlines to save seven victims. Each stop is meant to cause pain and torment, yet reveal secrets.

The clock starts at the Foggy Bottom Metro station and ends seven stops later. What Kate thinks she knows about her past is tested as is her ability to survive her trials.

Dan Grant delivers another edge-of-your-seat story that keeps you guessing. Crosswords? Puzzles? Super soldiers? It's more than that. Thirteen Across is an intricate thriller that exposes disturbing medical research in the form of a deeper revelation. The story draws on unique landmarks and locations set inside Washington, DC. Seven stops. Seven destinations. How will FBI Special Agent Kate Morgan survive? Read to find out.

Here's what other's said about Dan's thriller The Singularity Witness:

"The Singularity Witness is a fast-paced thriller with a scientific edge ... Never a dull moment." - San Francisco Book Review

"Dan Grant has taken some of the world's most controversial ideas surrounding medicine and technology and transformed them into a carefully crafted, slick thriller that is without a doubt one of the most pioneering books to come out in 2018." - Hollywood Book Review, Star Awarded to Books of Excellent Merit

"Blew me away ... A story ripped from tomorrow's headlines ... An eye-opening and explosive debut. Don't miss it " - James Rollins, New York Times internationally bestselling author of The Demon Crown

"The worlds of science, ethics, law, morality, and loyalty, constantly battle for supremacy in Dan Grant's intellectually stimulating thriller, The Singularity Witness ... Devilishly clever, and good, this is Dan Grant." - Pacific Book Review, Star Awarded to Books of Excellent Merit

"Packed with menace and peril this clever thriller is a stylish blend of fact and fiction. An entertaining romp from start to finish that's make you think -- is this real? Definitely one for the keeper shelf." - Steve Berry, #1 New York Times Internationally Bestselling Author of The Jefferson Key

"The only way to solve the case might be to allow the project to reach completion--an outcome with surprising ramifications for humanity." - Manhattan Book Review, 5 Stars

"A pulsing techno-thriller, deftly written and topical." - Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The One Man

"A hard-hitting story that is vivid, realistic, and frighteningly compelling." - Midwest Book Review

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal512
  • Udgivelsesdato23-04-2019
  • ISBN139781732504059
  • Forlag MindScape Press, Inc.
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt675 g
  • Dybde2,6 cm
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    10 cm
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    15,2 cm
    22,8 cm

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