A kill list. Thirty-six names. All marked complete.
When New York financial crimes detective Sarah Reeves finds her father’s name on a forty-year-old Wall Street kill list, she assumes it connects to the insider trading case she has spent sixteen years building.
She is wrong.
Row 4. 2008. Forty-two thousand dollars. Complete.
The list goes back further than any living conspiracy. The network behind it has been operating since 893 AD — built on a document created by Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. For eleven hundred years the Mercian Ledger recorded what kingdoms owed their people. Then it was corrupted. Then it was hidden.
Then Row 37 populated in real time.
Name: Sarah Reeves. Date: pending. Method: pending.
As the case collapses around her and the people closest to her begin to disappear, Sarah discovers that the corruption she has been investigating is not financial. It is institutional. It is ancient. And it has been waiting for someone in her family to find it.
Sarah’s surname is not a coincidence.
For readers of Daniel Silva, Steve Berry, Kate Mosse, and Scott Turow.
THE MARGIN OF DEATH is Book One of the Margin of Death Series. The companion literary series, The Bloodline Trilogy, begins with Lady of Mercia.
