"You live in blissful ignorance. I live on the edge of informed insanity." -- Simone Dancing
Simone’s earliest memories were numbers. She was born a mathematical savant. After being struck by lightning at age eight, she became something else. The keeper of God's own secret.
Thirty difficult years have passed since that terrible day when she was enlightened and her little brother was killed. She left the basement skunk works of the Puzzle Palace - the NSA - where her gift was almost useful. She left her husband, Logan, for his own good and after learning he was a highly specialized CIA operator. She left the harsh noise of the real world for a quiet vacation in a mental institution. She left her old name behind in favor of a new one and started a new life in sunny California.
For a decade it seemed to be working. Then they kidnapped her son. They demanded the IRIS Algorithm—the product of a long shuttered NSA project, whose former researchers have been recently dying of tragic accidents. With nowhere left to turn, Simone must convince her estranged husband that while she may be crazy, it doesn't mean she's wrong.
In a story that weaves its way through the basement technology projects of the NSA, to the subterranean dungeons of a dangerous organization, involving twisted conspiracy between nation states and their pawns, we discover what a mother will do to save her son—even if it means breaking her covenant with God, the end of secrets and the end of the civilized world.
Simone’s earliest memories were numbers. She was born a mathematical savant. After being struck by lightning at age eight, she became something else. The keeper of God's own secret.
Thirty difficult years have passed since that terrible day when she was enlightened and her little brother was killed. She left the basement skunk works of the Puzzle Palace - the NSA - where her gift was almost useful. She left her husband, Logan, for his own good and after learning he was a highly specialized CIA operator. She left the harsh noise of the real world for a quiet vacation in a mental institution. She left her old name behind in favor of a new one and started a new life in sunny California.
For a decade it seemed to be working. Then they kidnapped her son. They demanded the IRIS Algorithm—the product of a long shuttered NSA project, whose former researchers have been recently dying of tragic accidents. With nowhere left to turn, Simone must convince her estranged husband that while she may be crazy, it doesn't mean she's wrong.
In a story that weaves its way through the basement technology projects of the NSA, to the subterranean dungeons of a dangerous organization, involving twisted conspiracy between nation states and their pawns, we discover what a mother will do to save her son—even if it means breaking her covenant with God, the end of secrets and the end of the civilized world.
