Simon Sees

by Ryne Douglas Pearson

When he was a boy, Simon Lynch broke a National Security Agency super code. Now, twenty years and a half trillion dollars later, the government is about to access the secrets locked in his damaged mind. The riveting sequel to Simple Simon (made into the Bruce Willis movie ‘Mercury Rising’) is finally here. For two decades they’ve poured money and scientists into an effort to pierce the autism which has kept Simon Lynch all but inaccessible to those who most want to exploit his brilliance. But as that covert project is about to bear fruit, an outside entity has zeroed in on the now 36-year-old man, seeking him for their own, more destructive purposes. As before, the first line of defense against those with designs on the savant is now retired FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson. But also drawn into the maelstrom which develops around Simon is FBI Special Agent Emily LaGrange. Damaged by a grueling two-year undercover assignment, she’s assigned as liaison to the NSA project that studies Simon in a remote, secure facility. Security, though, is a relative term, and those who want Simon will go to any lengths to have him, forcing Emily LaGrange to confront both them, and her own demons, to save the innocent man from certain death—or a fate even worse than that.

398 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2018

About the author

Ryne Douglas Pearson is an accomplished novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of several novels, including Cloudburst, October's Ghost, Capitol Punishment, Simple Simon, Top Ten, The Donzerly Light, All For One, Confessions, and Cop Killer. He is also the author of the short story collection, Dark and Darker. His novel Simple Simon was made into the film Mercury Rising. As a screenwriter he has worked on numerous movies. The film Knowing, based on his original script, was released in 2009 and opened #1 at the box office. Receiving Four Stars from Roger Ebert, who branded it ‘among the best science-fiction films I’ve seen’, it went on to earn more than $180 million worldwide. He has also done uncredited work on films such as the remakes of The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Eye.

Despite the often ‘dark’ nature of his novels and films, Pearson has been noted to have a ‘sweet, disarming quality’ by Entertainment Weekly–an accusation he has been unable to shake. When not writing he is usually thinking about writing, or touting the wonders of bacon in online conversations. He is addicted to diet soda and the sound of his children laughing. A west coast native, he lives in California with his wife, children, a Doberman Kelpie and a Beagle Vizsla.