For many years, everyone relied on Jacob Stearne to be the hero who always saves the day. A few weeks ago, he failed to save his fiancé. Despondent ever since, he accepts a suicide mission to rescue a professor and is dragged into a war to own the most critical technology of the century. Scientists have been trying in vain to recreate the breakthrough research of a murdered young physicist that could power the world with clean energy a thousand times more efficiently than today. Whoever patents the formula will become the richest person in history overnight. But now the lost Chaac Equation has surfaced and the race to put it all together is on. As Jacob exposes the secret societies and rogues manipulating him, each faction offers him riches beyond his dreams. Angry at everyone's duplicity, he tries to determine which side should control the world's fate. Forced to gamble on a woman he hardly knows, Jacob sets up a gut-wrenching endgame worthy of a chess master. But will it reveal who should be the -or leave him dead? This is smartest, most entertaining, fun adventure fiction available today - A rock-solid, tension-filled ride that is completely entertaining all the way through. Set aside your Lee Child or David Baldacci books and pick up this twisting thrill-ride Plenty of edge of the seat suspense, a splash of well-timed humor, and adventures that leave you wanting more Seeley James has replaced Daniel Silva as my favorite international thriller writer - Julia Whitehall