"Secrets of State" Author Matthew Palmer Visits Darien Library on May 28

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.

About the Author: As a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, Matthew Palmer is a seasoned diplomat, whose work has taken him all over the world. From Kosovo to Africa, he has been at ground zero for some of the most pressing global political issues in recent history. Currently serving as the Director of Multilateral Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Asian and Pacific Affairs, his unrivalled knowledge of the workings of diplomacy and international crisis-solving, made his debut thriller, The American Mission (2014), a riveting and all-too-real page-turner.

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