Art Jefferson

With a talent for constructing absorbing suspense, Pearson creates gritty tales rich in technical accuracy and intrigue. He spins a riveting thriller in Simple Simon by blending cyberspace technology, an unlikely friendship, and fast-moving action set in the energetic city of Chicago. A doctor studying autism innocently gives 16-year-old Simon Lynch a magazine containing exercises for the mentally gifted. When Simon rapidly solves a number puzzle and phones in the correct answer, shadowy powers target him with deadly intent. FBI agent Art Jefferson comes to Simon's aid, only to find that he too becomes a target. The unlikely pair must learn to trust each other while they struggle for survival. Master storyteller Pearson's hard-hitting action and poignant drama along with George Guidall's memorable narration make Simple Simon a chilling tale.

Sixteen-year-old autistic savant Simon Lynch is a genius with numbers, capable of unraveling any mathematical problem placed before him. Distant and solitary, he lives in a private world that no one can understand or enter--until he solves the wrong puzzle. Now the brilliant, damaged boy has broken an unbreakable code, and rogue FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson is his only protection against a pathological government security apparatus and the world's most beautiful, deranged killer. For Simon knows secrets that no one must know--and for that he must die.

An autistic teenager. A ruthless assassin. An FBI agent who must risk everything to protect an innocent person from a savage. All three are thrust together when Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old savant, unknowingly breaks the newest, most secure code developed by the National Security Agency. Corrupt elements within that government behemoth, determined to protect their creation, send Keiko Kimura, a beautiful and brutal terrorist, after the young man. Only FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson stands between the killer and her prey. As though they were father and son, the bond between Art and Simon turns out to be as crucial to their survival as Art's decades of experience in the FBI. Together, they must evade their pursuers who track them through cyberspace and dog them at every turn. The action in Simple Simon never lets up until its final, explosive conclusion.