PROJECT 999

The dead don't hunt him. They recognize him.

Seven weeks after the Surge, Duluth lies buried in snow and silence, and Marcus Lawrence knows how the dead behave. Most of them come at anything that breathes.

Some of them stop.

They stand knee-deep in the drifts and watch him pass. They tilt their heads like someone hearing a song they almost know. They look at the glowing blue canister strapped to his chest, and then they look at him.

Marcus doesn't know what the canister is. He woke face-down in a ditch off Highway 53 already wearing it, with two days of his life cut out clean. Beside him sat his mother's empty car. Scratched into the guardrail above it was a child's drawing of a bow, its arrow aimed north.

So he follows it into the frozen Minnesota wilderness, with Nadia, a guarded paramedic who knows more than she says, and Rafi, a stranger he first met down the barrel of a rifle. Every arrow since the guardrail has pointed down.

Somewhere beneath the Iron Range, the trail ends at something no one was ever meant to find. And one question grows more terrifying with every mile:

Why does this world seem to know who he is?

PROJECT 999: Every Arrow Points Down is Book One of the PROJECT 999 series.