Matthew FitzSimmons

Lying low on the sun-kissed coast of Portugal is a far cry from twenty-four-hour lockdown in a CIA black-site prison. But even in paradise, Gibson Vaughn is a long way from being home free. With the feds hot on his heels, he and his crew of fellow fugitives know they can't hide in a sunny beach town forever. And their generous host-- a wealthy drug smuggler-- expects to be paid well for his hospitality: Gibson and his gang retrieve a king's ransom...

A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency-disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal-Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister to him. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance,...

After twenty years in exile, Agatha's life in the margins of Washington, DC, is about to become much more difficult. The rules have changed in her absence, that senator is now president, and Paxton, number three in the House, expects a nomination to the Supreme Court. After all, he knows where the president's skeletons are buried.

After his latest "refresh," Chance awakens to accusations that he's killed a stranger he has never met, and wondering if it was one of his clones, digs into the man's background and the mysteries of his own life and death, while staying one step ahead of the LAPD.