Seventeen-year-old Steven, who is always in trouble and is about to be kicked out of his foster home, discovers that his pet twelve-foot crocodile, that he has kept secretly hidden, has escaped.
After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him, and together with Eddi, a nineteen-year-old criminal, tries to uncover his true identity.
"It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles supersleuth Sid Halley. Last seen in 1995's 'Come to Grief,' former champion jockey Halley knows all too well the perils of racing--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest. Yet this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker--who only a few hours earlier won the coveted Triumph Hurdle."--back cover.
Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher investigates the death of a former Justice Department investigator by radiation poisoning, which leads him to a radical Islamic leader in Kyrgyzstan who will do anything to destroy the technological world.
