A manuscript of a biography called "The Accident" written by Anonymous is delivered to a literary agent, Isabel Reed. It contains explosive revelations about a well known media mogul. The more people that read it, however they they get their hands on it, the more likely they are to end up dead. This novel takes place over the course of one day as Isabel tries to stay one step ahead of CIA operative Hayden Gray, who seeks to destroy the manuscript and all knowledge of it. Hayden and one of his associates, Kate, were the central figures in the author's previous book, "the Ex-Pats." Meanwhile the anonymous, cancer ridden author is anxiously awaiting for the shoe to drop in hiding in Zurich. 
 I have two gripes with this book. First, there are way too many characters and some of them hard to distinguish. The chapters jump from one to another without sufficient orienting information, so several times I needed to backup and re-read from the beginning of a chapter because I thought it another character. Second, the author puts the time line in a blender--it jumps between at least 4 major points in time and is constantly backing up to follow the action of one of the other characters. Well, maybe I have a third gripe, a lot of minor characters are killed--it seems like too many and an easy way out for the author. 
 Incidentally, I read this on the Kindle app on my iPod Touch; that gave me an odd perspective possibly.