Claude McCutcheon, one of the most memorably sardonic characters ever to take center stage in suspense fiction, doesn't look, or act, much like a lawyer. A former paratrooper with reflexes honed in Vietnam and a lifetime supply of sordid memories, McCutcheon has pared his life down to the essentials.When he wakes in his bed late one night to find a four-year-old boy sitting in his living room, Claude is dumbfounded. It doesn't help when he reads the note from an old army buddy asking Claude to care for his son. It's been twenty-five years since Claude has seen Jesse Hamilton; what on earth compelled the father to leave his son with a virtual stranger? The answer, Claude soon discovers, lies in the work Jesse has been doing for Sentinel Microsystems, a very high-tech -- and very mysterious -- Silicon Valley company. As Claude inches closer to the truth about Sentinel, the trail gets progressively harder -- and deadlier -- to follow.
- ISBN10 0671023314
- ISBN13 9780671023317
- Publish Date 1 February 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 November 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English