On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own country. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But Hal isn't crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal clears his drug-hazed mind and pulls off a daring escape. But friends and longtime associates don't remember him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and when he first sees himself in the mirror, the face that looks back at him is not the one he knows as his own.

Robert Ludlum’s novels have been published in thirty-two languages and forty countries. Read by hundreds of millions worldwide, his books include The Bourne Identity, The Prometheus Deception, The Scarlatti Inheritance, and The Chancellor Manuscript.