This is how the world/changed. The Wall.

Communism. A new world order. But

before all that, there is a lurking ques-

tion: Why? What really happened? The

answer is Rebecca. Rebecca, who

showed the world the simple truth that

she who holds the secrets holds the

world. And she alone held them, tight.

Rebecca Townsend, dashing, roman-

tic, with a wit as outlandish as her libido,

is a recruiter of new talent for the

National Security Agency. Suddenly she

goes AWOL from the agency with a hand-

some young recruit. Piece by piece, the

agency discovers that Rebecca is one of

twelve members of a family that buys

and sells the most powerful commodity

in this new age, information. Can it be

that she and the Disciples plan to reveal

what every nation will kill to protect: its

most cherished secrets?

The results could be chaos, war or

peace.

Only one man can stop her. T. C.

Steele--patriot, voyeur, and reluctant

spy. A former information analyst at the

NSA, he is frantically recalled from an

early retirement to figure out what

stratagem Rebecca has put into play.

Has she been selling out all along? Is

she going over to the other side? And

what side is that, anyway? Steele sifts

through the hieroglyphic chards of elec-

tronic clues as he is rushed into an intri-

cate and gripping game of quarry and hunter. He must stop Rebecca at all

cost, and to do so he is forced to aban-

don the hushed and secure offices of the

agency and take to the field. To survive,

Steele clings to his own simple truth:

Solicit the trust of others; trust no one.

Here are American spies in pursuit of

one another, as their world crashes down

around them. The chase is suffused with

the mysterious culture of veiled enter-

prise that surrounds the NSA--known to

insiders as No Such Agency. This bold

and unforgettable thriller reveals that the

sphere of nations is balanced on pre-

cious little, and this is how it changed

forever.., or did it?

The Disciples is the reinvention of the

American spy-thriller.