A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the
Donovan novels Dr. Timothy Ryan head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks is
meeting a new patient a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred they are
attacked by assassins barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes leaving behind a
dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha
herself. She speaks in a strange tongue and doodles in bars dots and little pictures like
nothing Ryan has ever seen. Is she some sort of savant or the most cunning spy he's ever met?
Meanwhile in Egypt archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty tomb that shouldn't
exist filled with Mayan epigraphy mathematics and materials that didn't exist 3 000 years
ago. As a result of this discovery Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France along with
the sarcophagus they have found are snatched away to a hidden lab to solve the enigma of a man
lost in time. As dark forces gather Alpha makes an impossible escape from Grantham. Ryan
quickly becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance but with a team of unique allies sets
out to prove his innocence. Together they must find Alpha and save Ryan before it is too late.
