A Terrible Mercy is a real-time novel, meaning it will be updated at least once every three months - more often if events warrant - to incorporate the latest headlines as they pertain to the storyline. An ambitious undertaken by any measure, but Crossman, a best-selling mystery writer, confronts the challenge head-on in this white-knuckle thriller that follows present day horrors - the world-threatening outbreak of ebola, the terrors of Islamic State, and the kidnap of hundreds of young girls by Nigeria's Boko Haram - to their probable outcome. A Terrible Mercy truly is unlike any literary endeavor ever attempted; an ever-evolving story, as fresh today as it will be five years from now.