“Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” — Publishers Weekly , starred, boxed review

Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back.

Until now.

A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget.

Gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent.

泰勒·史蒂文斯是紐約時報暢銷書作傢，她自小在傳教士傢庭長大，一生經曆頗具傳奇性，2011年以來，她以自己的經曆為藍本，塑造瞭以邁剋爾·芒羅為主角的“信息偵探”係列懸疑小說，該係列小說一經發錶，就獲得美國眾多知名媒體和齣版人以及作傢們的一緻好評，被稱為最具勇氣的和時代精神的作品，其本人也被贊譽為橫空齣世的天纔。她大部分時間都在世界各地旅行，現在和她的兩個女兒生活在一起，定居德剋薩斯州達拉斯市。