Spark: the provocative, stimulating thriller that will grip you from the start

He has Cotard's Syndrome. He believes he is dead.

This makes his job as a hired assassin neutralising 'problems' for DBG, a massive multinational corporation, very simple. He carries out the task - and feels nothing.

Now DBG has such a problem. A key employee, Emily Buchanan, has disappeared, taking with her a fortune and priceless information which could destroy the company. Jacob must track her down.

In previous assignments, he had worked with cold logical precision, but this time he has to confront a threat that he first must understand before it destroys him...

Further praise for SPARK:

'Darkly futuristic . . . with a protagonist unlike any other.' - Austin Chronicle
'An adrenaline-charged thriller- endlessly inventive- that winds through a landscape of cutting-edge technology with great assurance and skill.' - Lincoln Child, New York Times bestselling author of The Third Gate
'Spark is a marvel. An utterly gripping, unbelievably imaginative tale with all the heart, drive, and humanity that its hero, Jacob Underwood, a contract assassin, lacks. . . . At once a heart pounding thriller, a bitter indictment of our growing surveillance state, and a life affirming story of the indomitability of the human heart.' - Christopher Reich, New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Deception
'From start to finish Spark defies expectation, joining a 'dead' man's cold regard with suspense at fever pitch.' - Locus
'As good as the Fourth Realm books were, this one may be even more appealing: less fantastic, more grounded in a contemporary real world, with a narrator who is deeply scarred and endlessly fascinating.' - Booklist (starred review)