A riveting novel of power, passion and intrigue, from the author of Soldiers of ’44. Harry Selby knows disturbingly little about the father he never met — until he comes to Summitt City, a chillingly efficient “planned” city where his long-lost half-brother begins to unlock the mystery of their common past... and then suddenly disappears. The brutal sexual assault upon Selby’s young daughter convinces him that beneath the dark currents of the two tragedies is a dimly discerned secret malice, a leviathan whose nature confounds even as he presses his search to the highest levels of law and government. The trail twists to a frightening military experiment in mind and memory control; to a sensational — and darkly suspicious — murder trial; and finally to Summitt City, where it all began — a city now lethal guardian of a most terrible truth. Summitt is a novel of remarkable range and depth, a brilliant exploration of at once the lowest and noblest in human behavior, including a touching father-daughter relationship that defies and survives the mindless evils arrayed against it. Summitt is the premier work of a fine writer at the top of his creative powers