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Jesse Hayes, a field agent in the Internal Revenue Service's Baltimore office, receives a potentially dangerous legacy when her immediate superior dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances. The bequest is a file he had been compiling on Elbridge Coleman, a wealthy entrepreneur who's challenging Malcolm Walker for his Senate seat. While Jesse (who's close to earning an MBA) carries on with her former mentor's investigation, she keeps a weather eye on private-sector opportunities and catches the attention of Elizabeth Gilman, managing director of Sagamore Investment. In the course of subsequent job interviews with Gilman's associates, Jesse begins to suspect that there may be a connection between the secretive money- management firm and the Coleman papers. She's right on. Sagamore is at the heart of a wide-ranging intrigue involving Senator Carter Webb (power-mad chairman of the Appropriations Committee), Theodore Cowen (Chief of Naval Operations), Jack Finnerty (CEO of General Engineering & Aerospace), Gilman, and a host of lesser lights. This in-group is close to realizing a megabuck payoff on its scheme to secure a firm contract to build the A-100, a carrier-based fighter developed secretly with funds from the Pentagon's so-called black budget; news of the hitherto unpublicized program also promises to do wonders for the market value of General Engineering (which is effectively controlled by Sagamore). Before the plotters can cash in, however, they must drive Walker, an outspoken foe of defense spending, from office and keep Hayes from learning too much. Despite their deadliest efforts, Jesse proves too resilient, savvy, and tough for the co-conspirators to handle.
Lively, but there's precious little but trite plights and clichéd characters behind this creaking door.
Anonymous
Posted January 25, 2011
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Overview
An IRS agent suspects foul play when her boss dies during an investigation into the financial profile of a senatorial candidate's campaign. Now she possesses the information that could ruin the candidate's career, expose the military's secret "black budget", and damage the credibility of a major investment banking firm. With the help of the banking firm's portfolio manager, she intends to reveal her information--unless she's silenced first!