The Ascendant is a brilliant new twist on the art of the white-knuckle thriller."Warfare goes digital in movie and TV writer Drew Chapman's fast-moving debut, a high-stakes thriller that pits the online might of China against that of the United States" ( Publishers Weekly) as reluctant patriot Garrett Reilly races around the globe to avert total war. In this taut and cunning novel, Drew Chapman takes readers into a scenario that is eerily plausible and utterly terrifyingâÈ'an unconventional war capable of bringing a superpower to its knees. His biggest problem? Numbers donâÈçt lieâÈöbut governments can. As Captain Alexis Truffant explains, Garrett has stumbled upon something much largerâÈ'and scarierâÈ'than he could have imagined: the first attack in a covert war of unthinkable proportions. Then the United States military arrives at his office, and GarrettâÈçs life is blown to pieces.
ItâÈçs a discovery that he knows will make him incredibly rich. As he watches buy and sell numbers float across his Bloomberg terminal, Garrett notices what nobody else can: that US Treasury bonds are being sold off at an alarming rateâÈ' two hundred billion dollarsâÈç worth. But he doesnâÈçt just memorize them he sorts them, ranks them, senses patterns in them. GarrettâÈçs memory for numbers is photographic. Not according to Garrett Reilly who, just two weeks past his twenty-sixth birthday, thinks heâÈçs probably the best bond analyst at his brokerageâÈ'maybe even the best in all of Manhattan. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Breaking Point and The Highway ). The Ascendant is a rollicking, globe-hopping, timely, and prescient page-turnerâÈ'a twenty-first century thrillerâÈë (C.J.
ÂÈêLike his intriguing protagonist Garrett Reilly, author Drew Chapman possesses startling skills and this first novel just blows the doors off.
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