num_pages: 320
description: Edgy hard-core and wildly imaginative this new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Twelve Hawks (The Traveler The Dark River The Golden City) features an assassin-narrator unlike anyone we've seen before set in a present-day dystopia.Jacob Underwood is a contract employee of the Special Services Section a shadow department in the faceless multinational corporation DBG. Jacob is not a businessmanhe is a hired assassinand his job is to neutralize problems deemed unacceptable by the corporation. Jacob is not like other employees nor is he like other people. Suffering from Cotard's syndrome-a real condition that causes people to believe they are dead-Jacob perceives himself as nothing but a Shell with no emotion and no sense of right or wrong. Emily Buchanan is a bright young second-year associate for DBG and she has disappeared without a trace. Suspecting she may have stolen valuable information and a fortune from the company Miss Holquist-Jacob's handler at DBG-assigns him the task of tracking her down and neutralizing her. Jacob's condition allows him to carry out assignments with ruthless logical precision-devoid of guilt fear or dishonor. But as his new assignment draws him inside a labyrinthine network of dark dealings Jacob finds himself up against something he is completely incapable of understanding. Spark is an ingenious and chilling vision of modern-day humanity under constant invasive surveillance and a pulse-pounding game of cat and mouse.
language: English
title: Spark
publisher: Doubleday