“ As fast-paced and twisty as ever ”
Peterborough Telegraph
“ Fast-paced, action-packed and intricately plotted, it’s another winner from the prolific author. ”
Culturefly
Trade Paperback
9781780895185
November 19, 2018
Century
448 pages
Hardback
9781780895178
November 15, 2018
Century
448 pages
EBook
9781473536166
November 15, 2018
Cornerstone Digital
448 pages
Paperback
9781784753658
July 15, 2019
Arrow
496 pages
Prologue
One
Temperatures that late January morning plunged to four degrees above zero, and still people came by the hundreds of thousands, packing both sides of the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House.
I was waiting at the corner of Constitution and Louisiana Avenues surrounded by my entire family. Bree Stone, my wife and DC Metro PD’s chief of detectives, stood in front of me wearing her finest dress blues.
My twenty-year-old son, Damon, was on my right. He had flown up from North Carolina the night before and had on long underwear, a suit and tie, and a black down jacket. Nana Mama, my ninety-something grandmother, had refused to listen to reason and watch this on TV. Sitting in a folding camp chair to my left and wrapped in blankets, she wore a wool ski cap and everything warm she owned. Jannie, my seventeen-year-old, and Ali, nine, were dressed for the Arctic but hugging each other for warmth and stamping their feet behind us.
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