The Delay

He was on his way to assassinate the President. She sat down on the train and made him miss his stop. Four years later, he found out it wasn't an accident. Marcus Cole is a former Army sniper with a dead brother and a fourteen-month plan. The plan is precise: a window, a rifle, a seven-second margin. Everything is in place. Then a woman named Nadia sits down across from him on the 6 train with a copy of Borges in her lap, and twenty-three minutes of conversation derails everything.
He finds her. They fall in love. He gets a job, builds a life, learns to sleep through the night. The mission fades. The anger goes quiet. For four years, Marcus believes he was saved by a chance encounter - a beautiful interruption that rerouted him from the worst thing he was going to do. Then he finds the second phone. THE DELAY is a literary thriller about love, surveillance, and the question nobody can answer: if the person who saved your life was sent to save it, does the saving still count?From the author of The Catalog Mindset, Back to the Fire, Good Dog, and TUNED IN.