Patrick Lee

The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret. But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more terrifying. As the U.S. President addresses the nation fromthe Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House. In a lightning flash, the Chief Executive is dead, his mansion in ruins, and two cryptic words are the only clue to the assassins’ motives: “See Scalar.” Now Travis Chase of the covert agency Tangent—caretakers of the Breach and all its grim wonders—along with partner and lover Paige Campbell and technology expert Bethany Stewart, have only twenty-four hours to unearth a decades-old mystery once spoken of in terrified whispers by the long since silenced. But their breakneck race cross-country—and back through time and malleable memory—is calling the total destructive might of a shadow government down upon them. For Travis Chase has a dark destiny he cannot be allowed to fulfill . . .

Now with SIGNAL, Patrick Lee and Sam Dryden are back and at the very top of their game. From the bestselling author of RUNNER comes the next thriller featuring Sam Dryden, in the series that has captured the imagination of readers worldwide. In the middle of the night, ex-Special Forces operative Sam Dryden gets a urgent call from an old colleague, desperate for his help in a last-minute secret mission. Without a moment's hesitation, Dryden agrees. The two race to a remote shack in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, where they break in, rescue four girls before the kidnapper can harm them, then flee into the hills just seconds ahead of the arriving police and FBI team. It's then that Sam Dryden learns the real secret behind this mission. His former teammate has been working security of a very special, very secret government project. A project that led to the development of a device which revealed what would have happened to the kidnapped girls if they hadn't intervened as they did. But as Newton's laws predict, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. There are some very bad people determined to get their hands on this device, and every time Sam uses it, now matter how well intentioned, there are hidden and unintended consequences. Consequences that threaten to rip apart his very world and everything that he holds dear.

Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she’s running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn’t know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he’s a man with the extraordinary skills and experience—as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel’s own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?

Thirty years ago, in a facility buried beneath a vast Wyoming emptiness, an experiment gone awry accidentally opened a door. It is the world's best-kept secret-and its most terrifying. Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilds, ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbles upon an impossible scene: a crashed 747 passenger jet filled with the murdered dead, including the wife of the President of the United States. Though a nightmare of monumental proportions, it pales before the terror to come, as Chase is dragged into a battle for the future that revolves around an amazing artifact. Allied with a beautiful covert operative whose life he saved, Chase must now play the role he's been destined for—a pawn of incomprehensible forces or humankind's final hope—as the race toward Apocalypse begins in earnest. Because something is loose in the world. And doomsday is not only possible...it is inevitable.

Neobjašnjiva tehnologija već desetljećima ulazi u naš svijet kroz strogo čuvanu tajnu anomaliju nazvanu Pukotina. Najnoviji uređaj u stanju je otvoriti prolaz prema budućnosti... Ono što je Paige Campbell ugledala kroz prolaz u buduće doba, sedamdeset godina nakon našega, smrtno ju je prestrašilo. Svoje strašno otkriće ona i kolege iz Tangenta odnijeli su predsjedniku i po povratku iz Bijele kuće naletjeli na kišu metaka iz strojnica. Samo je Paige preživjela. Bojeći se užasne osobne sudbine koja mu se otkrila s druge strane Pukotine, Travis Chase napustio je Tangent... i Paige Campbell. Sad ju mora spasiti jer Paige zna da je svijet sutrašnjice mrtav, zemlja duhova posuta kostima milijardi nesretnika. Sudnji će dan svanuti za samo četiri mjeseca... ako u tom kratkom vremenu ne nađu odgovore zakopane u ruševinama budućnosti. No, ako prijeđu košmarnu granicu u zemlju duhova, možda više nikad ne pronađu put za povratak... "Jednom riječju: briljantno... Napeto i jezovito akcijsko štivo koje izaziva strahopoštovanje." James Rollins „Ovaj nevjerojatno nadaren pisac jednostavno hipnotizira svojom imaginacijom i uvjerljivošću... prava adrenalinska bomba!" Stephen Coonts Patrick Lee (1976.) talentirani je američki pisac koji se proslavio trilerima u kojima kombinira napetu radnju i tehnologiju budućnosti, a u središtu je radnje karizmatični akcijski junak koji rješava misteriozne slučajeve i bori se za pravdu. Do sada je objavio pet romana: Trkač i Signal prate Sama Drydena, a Zemlja duhova drugi je nastavak trilogije u čijem je središtu Travis Chase.