Mirage Author: Don Passman
	Book Information Publisher: Warner Vision Book Type: Paperback Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780446610407 - ISBN-10: 0446610402 Publication Date: 11/1/2001 Pages: 368

A mental whiz who runs a cyber-encryption company, John Berger is at the top of his game and sure that all his hard work will soon pay off. After playing in a two-day chess tournament, he arrives at work to find his office building bombed and several people killed. When questioned by the police, he explains he was playing chess at the time of the explosion. Then comes a greater shock ("the police tell him the chess tournament never took place.

Thus begins a terrifying spiral of events that thrusts Berger into a dangerous world of madness and conspiracy. He becomes both the FBI )%s and the police )%s prime suspect in the bombing. Then Berger, the renowned thinker, suddenly finds himself hallucinating and losing his grip on reality. After someone tries to kill him with a bomb in his own home, Berger goes on the run.

Jill Landis, the FBI agent assigned to track Berger, is puzzled by the case. Why would a Stanford Ph.D. insist that he attended a nonexistent chess tournament? And could these bombings be connected to a similar one in Orlando? Jill manages to trace the few thin leads to a covert military project code-named Mirage ("only to discover that all the senior officers, including the director, have vanished.

Although a consummate logician, John Berger knows that his mind is rapidly deteriorating. Desperate and frightened, he must now solve the mystery of his missing weekend. For hidden in the depths of his tortured psyche are the answers to this lethal puzzle. But the secrets of Mirage will not unravel without a deadly fight with their keepers. And for John Berger, the killers are quickly closing in...

A breathlessly paced tale of intrigue and suspense, MIRAGE will leave you gasping and guessing ("and totally mesmerized ("until the last page is turned.