Chapter Two: The Dead List

Ethan took a round through the chest and fell into the black water of the harbor. He survived not because of luck, but because he cut his own biomonitor in the final seconds and let every system in the world believe Ghost was dead. "Where did this mark come from?" Ethan asked. Marcus saw his eyes and lowered his voice. "Core repository. Six years ago someone sold the remains of Nightglass to Aegis. That person is in Washington now." "Name." "I don't know the real one. Internal code name only: Patriot." Ethan's hand tightened. The van passed under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. He parked inside an abandoned car wash and opened the rear doors.