The Messenger

Ina world of heightened threat levels, sleeper cells, and unseen enemies, onenovel explores the war on terrorism with harrowing suspense . . . and deephumanity.

Dariaemerges from an Iraqi refugee camp a believer. She has lost everything,witnessed the unthinkable, and committed herself to a mission with a deadlyconclusion. Indoctrinated, trained, and given a ticket to New York, she blendsin, posing as an ambitious journalist-an "arrow" hoping to hit too many targetsto count.

Dr.Sam Watterman is recruited too. Falsely accused and disgraced in the anthraxinquiries after 9/11, he is no longer a believer in causes. But the governmentthat ruined his career now demands his expertise to locate a threat puttingmillions of Americans in peril.

Ina country that fights wars on foreign soil but remains terrified of thecataclysm at home, Sam strives toward redemption and Daria desperately seeksboth rebellion and enlightenment. Their lives will intersect at a place thatwill test their faith and make them each question what it means to havesomething worth dying for.

Witha riveting plot that spans sixteen fraught, compelling days, Stephen Miller'sdazzling novel of literary suspense brings the war to a landscape both familiarand vulnerable: the America we call home.

NorthCarolina born and raised, Stephen Miller is an actor on stage, film, andtelevision as well as the author of plays, screenplays, and novels.Unforgettable moments in his acting career include swimming with Hume Cronyn,improvising for a day with Robert De Niro, carrying Bette Davis down a flightof concrete stairs, stunt-driving with Burt Reynolds, and delivering LauraDern's child, as well as three appearances on The X-Files. The author offive previous novels, Miller is currently at work on his next novel.

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