Tick tock. Fifteen-year-old Amy Cahill has only a few days to live. There’s a poison coursing through her, and her only chance is to collect ingredients for an antidote. Too bad the antidote’s ingredients are scattered around the world. And too bad that survival is by far Amy’s smallest problem. The antidote she needs is also the only thing capable of stopping a deadly enemy. J. Rutherford Pierce is on the brink of becoming the most powerful man in the world, and if he does, no one will be safe. Amy and her younger brother, Dan, will do everything it takes to bring Pierce down. Even if Amy must pay the ultimate price.


時間滴答滴答地過去。十五歲的艾咪‧卡希爾僅剩下幾天生命。她體內流竄著劇毒，僅有的活命機會就是找出解藥的配方。不幸的是，這些配方四散在世界各地。同樣不幸的是，對艾咪來說，活下來只是最小的難題，因為她必須利阻止死敵J‧魯德福‧皮爾斯！而利用解藥來對付他是唯一打敗他的辦法。皮爾斯就要成為全世界最有權力的人了，若是演變至此，他將掌握所有人的生死 。艾咪和弟弟將不惜任何代價對抗皮爾斯，即便必須做出最終的犧牲，她也在所不惜。