McCarten, Anthony

Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. The goal is to disappear off the grid and evade FUSION, which can track anyone on earth. Cy Baxter is the creator of FUSION and if his softwear succeeds, he earns a ninety-billion-dollar government contract. If a contestant wins, they earn three million dollars. For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far higher than money, and her reasons for entering the test more personal than anyone imagines.

In this day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how Churchill turned Britain around, Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before. He reveals how he practiced and re-wrote his key speeches, from Blood, toil, tears and sweat to We shall fight on the beaches; his consideration of a peace treaty with Nazi Germany, and his underappreciated role in the Dunkirk evacuation; and, above all, how 25 days helped make one man an icon.