Zero Effect

They told Brill Wingfield he was dead. Someone just sent him a message proving they know exactly who he is.

Brill Wingfield has spent three years trying to live a quiet life on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Then, one morning, his phone lights up with three words:

TAKE THE JOB.

No name. No explanation. Just a message from a number that should not exist-and a photograph taken during the hurricane that nearly killed him.

Thirty-eight days earlier, someone was watching Brill from a boat in the st...