Putnam
April 2009
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Featuring: Jessica Monaghan; John Riordan
384 pages ISBN: 0399155422 EAN: 9780399155420 Hardcover Add to Wish List
When rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan gets the call from John Riordan, the senior partner at the illustrious law firm for which she works, she thinks the plum assignment he offers her might be a life-changing moment. And sheβs right, it isβonly not in the way she hopes. Itβs late on a Saturday night, and Riordan is busyβand, Jess can tell, well on his way to being drunk. He needs Jess to meet First Lady Annette Cooper, for whom Riordan is a personal lawyer, at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Jess is thrilled: This high-profile assignment must mean sheβs on her way to bigger things. But bigger isnβt always better.
Jess doesnβt remember much; only that in the course of the meeting with Annette Cooper she ended up in the backseat of a speeding car. All she knows is that the car crashes en route, killing the First Lady. Badly injured, Jess is the only survivor of what is trumpeted around the world as a tragic accident.
Although she has no memory about the events leading up to the accident, Jess still wonders: Was it really an accident? The FBI agent on the case, Mark Ryan, senses Jess is hiding something. As Ryanβs suspicions grow, Jessβs world starts falling apart. Riordan suddenly dies of a heart attack, and his personal secretary also dies in a car accident on the way to his funeral. In fact, everyone who might possibly know the details about the First Ladyβs meeting is dead. And then Jess understands: if she remembers that night, sheβll be dead too.
Terrified and certain the First Ladyβs death was no accident, Jess has only Mark Ryan to turn to. . . .
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