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The Enemy Within |
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| Noel Hynd
ISBN: 0765306123
Format: Hardcover, 432pp
Pub. Date: March 2006
Publisher: Tor Books
BBP Sales Rank: 104,093
List Price: $25.95 |
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A paranoid political action thriller that can only be described as 24 meets
Alias meets The Day of the Jackal.
It is early summer of 2009, an uneasy time in the American capital. Washington
is tense over a showdown between the United States and the new ruler of Libya.
Laura Chapman is a U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House. She
is quirky, solitary, and frequently unorthodox. She is sexy and fit, adept with
a pistol as well as with a hundred-pound Everlast bag. But she is also a
brilliant intelligence analyst. That's why she has been assigned to the
Presidential Protection Detail for the past eleven years.
The CIA assigns Laura to a case that borders on the unthinkable: an
assassination plot against the new president. Shockingly, the trigger man will
be a member of the United States Secret Service.
Since the CIA knows that the assassin is male, Laura is not a suspect. The odds
are heavily against her locating an alleged assassin within the Service, and
even more heavily against her surviving the assignment.
Beyond that, problems abound: First, because of her age and gender, members of
the Service as well as agents in the CIA and FBI are waiting for her to fail.
Second, Laura's personal life is in disarray, and her secret drinking is about
to get out of hand. Third, the hit is scheduled to take place on July 4, 2009,
in the Oval Office. Less than two weeks from now.
As her investigation proceeds, Laura cannot shake the suspicion that there are
things she has not been told, that she is being set up. . . . In her
increasingly frequent moments of paranoia, she wonders: Am I going to be the
new Lee Harvey Oswald?
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