Trust Me Hardcover - 2009

by Jeff Abbott

On the new digital battlefront in the war on terror, one man willlearn to negotiate the extremely thin line between unconditionaltrust and unspeakable betrayal.

Luke Dantry tells people he has a job on the cutting edgeof the war on terror-only he knows it's nowhere near asadrenaline-filled as he makes it sound. Luke's nightly taskworking for his stepfather's Washington think tank: Go undercoverfrom the anonymous safety of his computer andinfiltrate Web-based, home-grown terrorist networks, catalogingthe screen names and details of a motley collectionof rage-filled, mentally suspect, and mostly impotent lonershe comes to call the Black Road. Now and then he encounterssomeone who may have the capability to make goodon his threats, but Luke figures that the vast majority of histargets are simply frustrated malcontents using the Internetas an empty soapbox.

When Luke is kidnapped at gunpoint, without warning, andleft for dead in an isolated cabin deep in the woods, he realizesit must be related to his work, and that the Black Roadis far more organized than he thought-and much closer tohome than he could have ever imagined. After a daring escape,with both the terrorist group and their enemies on hisheels, he must quickly assemble a complex puzzle of convolutedhistories and motives, where the final pieces extenddeep into his own past-and where Luke himself may holdthe key to stopping the Black Road before their spectacularplans come to horrible fruition.