From the publisher: This title contains both Meltdown and its conclusion, Mindscrew. 

What if the cash in your wallet was suddenly worthless? 

What if your life’s savings suddenly wouldn’t buy you dinner? 

How secure is our way of life? 

Special Agent Sam Jameson doesn’t pay much attention to the crackpots and goofballs with their shrill economic doomsday predictions…until their dire conjecture comes shockingly true. 

That's when her week blazes past horrible and crashes headlong into nightmarish. 

On the heels of a harrowing rescue of her live-in lover from the clutches of a brood of nasty bastards, Sam finds herself thrust into the limelight, leading the investigation into the most audacious - and outrageously successful - economic terror plot in history. 

With the global financial system in ruins and a worldwide social meltdown crashing down around her, Sam must win a desperate race to prevent a disastrous consolidation of power into the hands of a shadowy and ruthless international cabal. 

Will an unrepentant computer hacker's brazen heist and a thin trail of cryptic clues hold the key to Sam’s survival? Will she solve the puzzle in time to prevent North America's economic enslavement? 

Meltdown is the second installment in conspiracy master Lars Emmerich’s Devolution trilogy, a collection of three number-one best-selling thrillers starring Sam Jameson.