A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

After three decades in counterintelligence, Brad Trasker is retired, disillusioned, and dealing with a tragic loss. Spy games are behind him until he attends the launch of a next-generation aircraft. When the project of innovative aerospace CEO Kylie Connor explodes on the tarmac—nearly killing her in the process—Trasker is pulled back into the line of fire.

The mystery of the sabotage quickly deepens. All Kylie’s data has been wiped from the server. One of her engineers has disappeared. A seed investor has died in a suspicious car accident. And a cold-blooded murder raises the stakes even higher.

To discover who’s pulling the strings behind a dangerous conspiracy, Trasker needs to find a motive. Corporate espionage, revenge, or something he can’t yet see? Targeted by assassins, he finds himself overmatched when he realizes he can’t trust anyone—including Kylie. Too long out of a game he no longer understands, Trasker must adapt or die.

Andrew Mayne is the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Girl Beneath the Sea, Black Coral, Sea Storm, and Sea Castle in his Underwater Investigation Unit series; The Naturalist, Looking Glass, Murder Theory, and Dark Pattern in the Theo Cray series; and Angel Killer, Name of the Devil, and the Edgar Award–nominated Black Fall in his Jessica Blackwood series. He was the star of A&E’s Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne and swam with great white sharks using an underwater stealth suit he designed for the Shark Week special Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver. He currently works on creative applications for artificial intelligence and as the science communicator for OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT.