In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption
application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. In Istanbul, a
cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his
estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the next
victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Silicon
Valley's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts
sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and
bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy. Alex
Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his ambition: making
partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a
technology Alex is banking on is murdered... and the patent
examiner who reviewed it dies... and Alex himself narrowly escapes
an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of options, and running
out of time, he knows the one person who can help him is the last
person he'd ever ask: his brother. Ben Treven is a Military Liaison
Element, an elite undercover soldier paid to "find, fix, and
finish" high-value targets in America's Global War on Terror.
Disenchanted with what he sees as America's culture of denial and
decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the
black ops world is all he really knows-and because other than Alex,
who he hasn't spoken to since their mother died, his family is long
gone. But blood is thicker than water, and when he receives Alex's
frantic call, Ben hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then
does Alex reveal that there's another player who knows of the
technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer who
Alex has long secretly desired... and who Ben immediately
distrusts. As these three radically different people struggle to
identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are
forced to examine the events that drove them apart-even as Sarah's
presence, and her own secret wants, deepens the fault line between
them. Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the
shadows and into the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be
stopped only by three people-three people with different
worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the
forces arrayed against them, they'll first have to survive each
other. "The first blogosphere thriller... Eisler's novel, which
turns entirely on a super-secret assassinations program, is looking
less like fiction and more like the work of someone who has a firm
grip on what's really happening." -Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Ben Treven, 1 |
Release date: |
March 2013 |
First published: |
March 2013 |
Authors: |
Barry Eisler
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
292 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4812-0525-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
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LSN: |
1-4812-0525-0 |
Barcode: |
9781481205252 |
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