Nothing on Earth

“I often traveled for work.” So begins Nothing on Earth, a propulsive novel that tells the story of Anna Hendrix, an American spy, as she seeks to learn the nature of an unknown, potentially powerful material that appears at seemingly random points around the world and that science can’t explain. No one knows what it is; everyone wants to find it.

For a long time, Anna worked in counterterrorism, but her new mission is something different, a mystery that sets allies and enemies scrambling ac...