The Third Name

Six months after Solomon Hatch's arrest, four months into the fifth-name investigation, Damon Reyes returns to Washington. The initial case - built across three months, delivered to the classified proceeding, now moving at the speed of classified federal reviews - is not his reason for returning. The reason is the third name from the compressed file the unknown-protocol sender delivered at forty thousand feet above the Carolina coast. The third name is the person whose instructions the cons...