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ABOUT THE BOOK:

Operation Treadstone is a top-secret CIA Black Ops program that made uses behavior modification to turn government agents into virtually superhuman assassins.  The agents can lead normal lives until \u201cactivated,\u201d at which point they become killing machines deployed to undertake nearly impossible missions.  Treadstone made Jason Bourne an unstoppable force, but he's not the only one.

Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam Hayes. They trained him to be a nearly invincible assassin, but it also cost him his family. Adam only wants normalcy, but the savage voices in his head still haunt him and control his responses. Now living in rural Washington state and scraping by as a carpenter, his marriage is a shambles and he hates being separated from his young son, but at least he has left Treadstone in the past\u2026until he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague stating, \u201cBy the time you get this I\u2019ll be dead\u2026\u201d.  Soon after, Adam is attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site.

Now, Adam is wholly sucked back into the Treadstone universe and must regain the skills they taught him\u2013\u2013lightning reflexes and a cold conscience\u2013\u2013in order to discover who the would-be killers are, and why they have come after him now. Are his pursuers enemies from a long-ago mission? Rival intelligence agents? Or, perhaps, someone inside Treadstone? His search will lead him to the highest levels of government and place him once more in the path of the extreme danger he thought he\u2019d left behind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua Hood is the author of Warning Order and Clear by Fire. He graduated from the University of Memphis before joining the military and spending five years in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was a team leader in the 3-504 Parachute Infantry Regiment in Iraq from 2005-2006 where he conducted combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. From 2007-2008, Hood served as a squad leader with the 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Afghanistan where he was decorated for valor in Operation Furious Pursuit. On his return to civilian life he was a sniper team leader on a full time SWAT team in Memphis, TN, where he was awarded the lifesaving medal. Currently he works as the Director of Veteran Outreach for the American Warrior Initiative.

Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 225 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series\u2013\u2013The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum\u2013\u2013among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001.