In Silicon Valley the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug dealIn Istanbul a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother a patent lawyer who believes he is the next victimAnd on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road Silicon Valleys nerve center of money and technology old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemyAlex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition making partner in his high-tech law firm But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murderedxand the patent examiner who reviewed it diesxand Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home Off balance out of ideas and running out of time he knows the one person who can help him is the last person hed ever ask his brotherBen Treven is a Military Liaison Element an elite undercover soldier paid to find fix and finish high-value targets in Americas Global War on Terror Disenchanted with what he sees as Americas culture of denial and decadence Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knowsxand because other than Alex who he hasnt spoken to since their mother died his family is long goneBut blood is thicker than water and when he receives Alexs frantic call Ben hurries to San Francisco to help him Only then does Alex reveal that theres another player who knows of the technology Sarah Hosseini a young Iranian American lawyer who Alex has long secretly desiredxand who Ben immediately distrusts As these three radically different people struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apartxeven as Sarahs presence and her own secret wants deepens the fault line between themFault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and into the streets of America a conspiracy that can be stopped only by three peoplexthree people with different worldviews different grievances different motives To survive the forces arrayed against them theyll first have to survive each otherThe first blogosphere thrillerxEislers novel which turns entirely on a super-secret assassinations program is looking less like fiction and more like the work of someone who has a firm grip on whats really happening xScott Horton Harpers Magazine.
