A government secret about the end of the world will change whatтАЩs left of a manтАЩs suburban life in this thriller by an Edgar AwardтАУwinning author.
California businessman J. Middleton Little is on company assignment in Chicago when heтАЩs caught eavesdropping on a top-secret confab between high-level government officials. J. knows he isnтАЩt just hearing things; they actually referred to the coming Armageddon. To ensure his silence, J.тАЩs been offered the chance of a lifetime: seven seats on an тАЬarkтАЭ scheduled to carry the last vestiges of the human race from Earth before the apocalypse. In a matter of minutes, J. has gone from a self-described тАЬmiddle-class, middle-income, middlebrow man-of-the-streetтАЭ to one of the most privileged men in the universe. The only stipulation: He canтАЩt tell a single soul until the proper time.
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For now, itтАЩs back to life in Burbank with his dutiful, intuitive wife; an underhanded and scheming son; his impossibly spoiled daughter; his unhinged father; and a mother-in-law whose religious fanaticism is making J. think twice about his role as saviorтАФespecially when he finds himself shadowed by an insidious pack of secret agents, counterspies, and a lone madman on a terrifying mission.
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Soon enough, J.тАЩs once-ordinary world will be ripped apart by threats, deceit, cover-ups, secrets, and shifting family loyalties. It will also leave J. wondering what he really does know, what he doesnтАЩt, what heтАЩs been led to believe, and above all, why. J. Middleton Little has a lot to learn before the end.
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This smart, inventive thriller by тАЬthe American queen of suspense novelistsтАЭ is impossible to put down (New York Telegraph).