Robert Ludlum

Nicholas Bryson was a deep cover operative for the secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission goes wrong, he's retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania. Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country's interest. The Deputy Director of the CIA now wants to enlist Bryson to help track down the Directorate--which seems to be moving towards an end game of some sort--and stop them for good. But it's been years since Bryson has been in the field, his skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, and he doesn't know who, if anyone, can be trusted. Along with all of this is his wife--the woman who disappeared by her own design just before the fatal mission that ended Bryson's first career--and the truth behind their relationship that he's determined to finally learn.