On the eve of a secretmilitary operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President SethJerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to savehis life—and where Professor Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a devicethat can erase traumatic memories.Then a terrorist bombdetonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest.He has a near-death experience—but the memories that flash throughJerrison’s mind are not his own. The electromagnetic pulse generated bythe bomb amplified and scrambled Professor Singh’s equipment, allowing arandom group of people to access one another’s minds.One ofthose people can retrieve the President Jerrison’s memories—includingclassified information regarding the upcoming military mission, which,if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining whohas switched memories with whom is a daunting one—particularly whensome of the people involved have reason to lie…