Pax West

At four, Pax West nearly killed another child. Neurologists found the part of his brain governing emotion, morality, and empathy was missing — doctors doubted he'd survive to adulthood; some doubted he should. DARPA's Dr. Alan Kepler saw a weapon instead. Raised for duty, Pax became a Navy SEAL at eighteen, then a CIA ghost at twenty-four — a man erased from records, sent on missions that officially never happened.

At four years old, Pax West nearly killed another child. Testing revealed why: the part of his brain responsible for emotions, morals, and ethics was simply missing. Neurologists had never seen anything like it. Most said he wouldn't survive to adulthood. Some said he should be euthanized before he got the chance. Dr. Alan Kepler of DARPA saw something else entirely: the perfect weapon.

Pax West, a former CIA Ghost with no past and no future, alights an Amtrak train in Portland, Oregon. He wasn’t there long before a detective arrests him for the murder of a local woman. The detective says he has him on CCTV. The woman was his niece, making this personal. The usual judicial rules didn’t apply as far as he was concerned. Pax was thrown into Oregon State Penitentiary. It was a mistake, but it would get cleaned up in the morning. Inside, Pax witnessed another inmate – Elliot Brooks – getting beaten up. It was an uneven fight. Four, heavyset men on one skinny kid with glasses.

The Caribbean Sea was perfectly still. No land. No ships. No hope. Floating on his back and drifting alone, Pax West knew he was dying. Dehydrated, delirious, and miles from land, he couldn’t help but laugh–of all the ways he thought he was going to die, this wasn’t one of them… Don't miss the third gripping installment in the Pax West series, a collaboration between bestselling authors Scott Medbury and Christopher Cartwright, narrated by bestselling narrator Adam Barr.