When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.

Seven years after her son Jim, a freelance journalist, was captured and killed by ISIS - a brutal act that produced one of the 21st century's most haunting images - Diane Foley is offered the opportunity to meet her son's murderer over three days in a Virginia courthouse. So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. In this astonishing book, we are all invited...