The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.

"What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains...