LLOYD SALT

by Evan Thomas

Lloyd Salt is a child prodigy in the care of a secretive branch of the C.I.A. that raises and trains child geniuses for the greater good of the country. For Lloyd, that is a family business as his mother and father are both trained agents. He now faces a test that all thirteen year olds in the system must complete before advancing further… a real life situation of emergency. His “term of stay” would consist of being sent on a mission with a supervisor to observe how he deals with a problem in a specific area and assignment. However nothing goes like Lloyd had imagined. With each situation comes further mystery as Lloyd becomes aware of the undisclosed intentions of this mission. He uncovers an ancient truth that threatens to spiral all civilization as we know it to its knees, and destroy all inhabitants of Earth.

253 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 7, 2019

About the author

Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike’s Bluff, and Being Nixon. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986–96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweek’s fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Report, and has been a guest on PBS’s Charlie Rose more than forty times. The author of dozens of book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Thomas has taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism.