477 pages

Russian language

Published Nov. 20, 2018

ISBN:
978-5-04-090995-7
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OCLC Number:
1032007943

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"Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack. Enter Harper Brown. An agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she orders Decker to back off the case. The murder is part of an open DIA investigation, one so classified that Decker and his team aren't cleared for it. But they learn that the DIA believes solving the murder is now a matter of urgent national security. Critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government--or worse, an international terrorist group--and an attack may be imminent. …

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Subjects

  • United States
  • United States. Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Terrorism
  • Government investigators
  • Prevention
  • Fiction