Skeptic — Holden Scott

In an underground laboratory in Boston a young woman has made a discovery that will stun the world. But someone already knows all about it.

On the streets of the city, thousands gather to greet the governor. But someone knows that in a split-second, the politician will be dead.

Inside the CIA, a female agent hunts an ingenious madman, who is even more dangerous than she knows...

Dr. Mike Ballantine is a man of science, fact, and logic--until he sees his best friend, the Governor of Massachusetts, obliterated before his eyes. Until a bizarre specter appears before him. Until a beautiful CIA agent named Amber Chen tells him about an executioner emerged from the depths of the Chinese Revolution, bringing to America a murderous art that is part magic, part science, and pure evil. Now, as Mike and Amber desperately try to unravel a mystery of biomedicine and murder, they face the most chilling revelation of all: that the worst weapon ever invented is not a bomb, a missile, or a toxin--it's a ghost...