Tom Keeler is having a fine summer, being a regular civilian in Europe with no plans at all. Then an old friend from his CIA days walks in, and she isn't there for the diving.
The job sounds simple. Paris, small crew, half off the books. Watch Charlie Schmitt, founder of MirrorTrace: a machine that pieces together secrets nobody ever leaked. That used to be the NSA's trick. Now it runs on Schmitt's servers, and nobody can switch it off.
Except there's a lover the Agency has no file on. A man whose face comes back blank on every database on earth. And two paid thugs waiting on a dark Montmartre staircase, where Keeler's cover gives him exactly one move: take the beating like a civilian.
The lover's name is Charlotte Lau. Beautiful, brilliant, and living inside a life other people built for her. A zone with no visible walls.
Keeler was sent to find out what Schmitt is hiding. The better question is who built the zone around Charlotte Lau. And what they'll do to the man who gets her out.
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The Zone is the ninth Tom Keeler thriller from Jack Lively.
Genre: Mystery
The job sounds simple. Paris, small crew, half off the books. Watch Charlie Schmitt, founder of MirrorTrace: a machine that pieces together secrets nobody ever leaked. That used to be the NSA's trick. Now it runs on Schmitt's servers, and nobody can switch it off.
Except there's a lover the Agency has no file on. A man whose face comes back blank on every database on earth. And two paid thugs waiting on a dark Montmartre staircase, where Keeler's cover gives him exactly one move: take the beating like a civilian.
The lover's name is Charlotte Lau. Beautiful, brilliant, and living inside a life other people built for her. A zone with no visible walls.
Keeler was sent to find out what Schmitt is hiding. The better question is who built the zone around Charlotte Lau. And what they'll do to the man who gets her out.
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The Zone is the ninth Tom Keeler thriller from Jack Lively.
Genre: Mystery