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Gallery Books
June 2013
On Sale: June 18, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1476715548
EAN: 9781476715544
Kindle: B00A25FCRO
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An intriguing thriller from a former NPR correspondent
about a young reporter who must match wits with spies,
assassins and a terrorist sleeper cell targeting the very
heart of American power. “If, on an early summer’s
night, you wanted to kill a man, how would you do it? Would
you lay a trap, sharpen a dagger, uncork a
poison? Personally, I’ve always leaned toward
the dramatic. But looking back, I wonder now
if the events of last summer didn’t begin with a quieter
sort of murder.” So ponders Alexandra James, a
beautiful, driven, yet troubled New England Chronicle
reporter. She is assigned to cover the death of Thom
Carlyle, son of one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Just back from a year abroad, Thom falls from the top of a
Harvard bell tower on a warm summer night. Did he jump, or
was he pushed? For Alex James, who can get in anywhere,
sleep with anyone, out-drink and out-shop her demons, it is
the story of a lifetime. As she chases leads from Harvard
Yard to the courtyards of Cambridge, England, to a
clandestine rendezvous in London, to the inside of a nuclear
terrorist network...the intrigue seems to suit her.
But nothing is what it seems. When she arrives back
in Washington, DC, for a key interview that promises to tie
together the leads she has puzzled out, Alex the hunter
becomes Alex the hunted. An assassin is dispatched...Her
laptop disappears...Her phone is tapped...And she begins to
grasp that Thom Carlyle may have been killed to hide a
terrifying conspiracy within the White House itself. Former
NPR Intelligence correspondent Mary Louise Kelly has turned
her own real-life reporting adventures into fiction with
this stylish spy thriller.
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