A convenience store shopkeeper. A disappointed congresswoman. The CEO of a high-tech firm. All have their ordinary mornings cut short by a crisis.A day at the office becomes a deathtrap. A walk through the streets becomes a stroll through a warzone.Chief Bentley finds himself in the middle of an Emergent Pattern, one that only he and his colleagues can hope to stop. But once trapped inside the enemy's web, can there be any escape from net of death and deception?The pattern might become clear, but the way out of it is anything but.