Gatekeeper (Abridged)

Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting-from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City-stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.

Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at the American consulate, but her return to Paris forces her to revisit tragedy: the assassination of her parents by a sniper's bullets fifteen years ...