Jack is dead. Or he should be anyways. After all, who could survive a horrible car accident involving a Monday morning downpour and a speeding truck? Nobody. Nobody except for Jack, apparently. Improbably and illogically, Jack manages to cheat death itself and survives an accident the whole world thought had killed him, making him the exception to the rule of mortality. But soon he learns that he isn't the only exception. There are others like him. The ones with thirteen lives.