So he was straight, and he was happy about it, which was doubly unusual.

He hadn’t dipped into his bag of Hindu Skunk because it was a Tuesday, and new bond issues priced in the market on Tuesdays, usually right at 8:00 a.m., and if you were stoned when the new issues priced you would miss a step, and if you missed a step you would make mistakes, and if you made mistakes you would lose money. Garrett Reilly did not bake that morning, which was unusual. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. “This is a wild ride through the headlines of our times” ( Kirkus Reviews). Ascendant is a must-read for international thriller fans” ( Booklist, starred review). “ The Hunt for Red October meets Hackers. The only problem? Numbers don’t lie.but sometimes governments do. Suddenly, Garrett is the only one left standing between an unknown enemy and the very security of our country. Garrett begins to link a series of seemingly unrelated-and very dangerous-events that start in New York, but continue to Las Vegas, Oregon, and all lead back to rural China. Captain Alexis Truffant explains that Garrett has stumbled on something bigger and scarier than he could have ever imagined: the first attack in a covert war of unthinkable proportions.

It’s a discovery that Garrett knows will make him stinking rich.īut then the US military arrives at his office and Garrett’s life is thrown into free fall. But he doesn’t just memorize numbers: he sorts them, ranks them, senses patterns.Īs he watches buy and sell numbers float across his computer monitor, Garrett notices what nobody else can: that US Treasury bonds are being sold off at an alarming rate. Garrett’s memory for numbers is photographic. Numbers don’t lie.Not according to Garrett Reilly who, just two weeks past his twenty-sixth birthday, thinks he’s probably the best bond analyst at his brokerage, maybe the best in all of lower Manhattan. “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.

The Ascendant by Drew Chapman