Special Agent Constant Marlowe pursues a cause rural Illinois and reveals a hornet’s nest of conspiracy in a pulse-pounding novella by New York Times bestselling creator Jeffery Deaver, where nothing is what it appears.
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in prepared crime. Her project is to collar him and flip him right into a cooperating witness. The simplest trouble? Marlowe doesn’t recognize who he is or even what he looks like. It doesn’t help that the trail has led her to a farming community within the nether land of Downstate, the ones stretches of Illinois in which countless fields of past due-season corn block the reality…and any signal of coming threat. When Marlowe stumbles on a teenage boy’s convenience shop robbery, she finds herself inside the crosshairs of a conspiracy that shatters the illusion of a sleepy small city.