When his investigative reporter brother is murdered while researching a story, Clay Barstow follows his trail into Kentucky and begins an investigation of his own. Behind the idyllic landscape and quiet houses of McAdam County he finds an undercurrent of paranoia and secrecy swirling around something hinted at in his brother's notes, a new technology of astonishing power called the silicon dagger.As Clay delves further into the secrets of McAdam County and the ruling family that is its namesake, he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the conspiracy -- as its target. Framed for murder and on the run from the bloodthirsty local militia, Clay desperately seeks his brother's killers and the secrets of the silicon dagger. Because if he can't reveal them in time, they just might enable the people of Mc Adam County to do what no one has dared in a century and a half -- declare independence from the United States of America.
- ISBN10 0812540425
- ISBN13 9780812540420
- Publish Date 1 January 2000 (first published 30 October 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Language English