Matthew Palmer, author of "Secrets of State," will be the Darien Library’s featured speaker on Thursday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at this event. Refreshments will be served.
Deeply entrenched in real-world global intrigue and politics, "Secrets of State" is international thriller fiction at its best, from a man who has lived through it all. Fans of "Homeland" and "House of Cards" will love this read!
About the book: As an outspoken iconoclast, Sam Trainor’s contrary point of view has often gotten in the way in what should be a brilliant career. Now, leaving his post as a South Asia analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence & Research to work for Argus Security, a Beltway Bandit consulting company, he quickly learns that the government and private consulting contractors have very different approaches and agendas. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate version of the work that has driven him for so long, he stumbles across an anomaly in the intel – the transcript of a phone conversation suggesting that the delicate balance between India and Pakistan could be deliberately upset. As he digs deeper, he realizes that something worse than bad intel is at stake: nuclear war.
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