Some secrets are better left buried. Alex Vane has sold out. Once a top investigative journalist, he now peddles celebrity gossip and clickbait listicles through his online magazine, The Barker. To make matters worse, his wife kicked him out eight months ago and she appears to be moving on. One summer morning, Alex learns that an old source has been killed in a random mass shooting at a newspaper in Las Vegas. But the source left Alex once last scoop: a 50-year-old hard drive that may contain an explosive secret, and the name of the one person in Vegas who can help him access the data. That person is Quinn Rivers—a paranoid, reclusive computer expert who believes the CIA is tracking her every move. And she may be right because, when Alex shows up at her door with the hard drive, armed operatives appear minutes later. Alex and Quinn escape, but are now on the run, desperate find out what's on the hard drive. Embarking on a dangerous road trip from Las Vegas to Seattle, they delve into the dark, Cold War history of the American media and discover that the mass shooting may not have been random after all. Series List: The Cutline (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 0) The Anonymous Source (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 1) The Inverted Pyramid (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 2) The Mockingbird Drive (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 3)