The protagonist is Brendan Buchanan. He also goes by other
names - Potter, Crawford, Block, Davis - in fact, over two
hundred others. A member of a special-operations until so
covert it may as well be run by ghosts, Buchanan is a master
of impersonation, a specialist in assuming false identities.
But now his unique gifts - and desperate pathology -
threaten to destroy him. The beginning of his nightmare
occurs in Cancun, Mexico, where Buchanan's latest alias is
brutally unmasked. Racing through a torturous escape route,
he is shocked to discover that his controllers will no
longer give him a new identity. For the first time in eight
years, he will have to be himself. But after spending so
much time assuming different identities, he no longer knows
who he is. Suddenly, he receives a mysterious postcard, a
coded, unmistakable plea for help. Its source is Juana
Mendez, a former partner who had posed as his wife six years
earlier, countless missions ago. In his quest for Juana,
Buchanan is thrust into a stark wilderness of mirrors and
faced with a harrowing conspiracy. Yet he finds the
unreadable maze of his own mind as dangerous as the harsh,
chilling world that assails him from without. His partner in
the search is Holly McCoy, a reporter whose beauty is
matched only by her determination to penetrate Buchanan's
multilayered psychological armor and write her subject's
real story. Seeking one woman, while inexorably drawn to
another, Buchanan relentlessly follows a seductive but
deadly trail from Key West to New Orleans, from San Antonio
to Mexico City. Ultimately, he will find the truth about
Juana, and even the truth about himself - if he can survive.
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