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Karna Bodman
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Regnery Fiction
Type: Fiction
Pages: 352
Copyright: September 25, 2018
ISBN-13: 987816215777799
Price: $9.99 (eBook)
White House staffer + FBI agent race to unravel plot targeting financiers that would sink stock markets worldwide.
Trust but Verify is the 5th thriller in the White House National Security Series by Karna Small Bodman - all involve international plots, bureaucratic wrangling and political intrigue. The other 4 are: Checkmate, Gambit, Final Finesse and Cadstle Bravo (all updated and re-released the summer of 2018). Trust but Verify is out in hardback and kindle versions Sept. 25, 2018.
Excerpt
TRUST BUT VERIFY EXCERPT
CHAPTER ONE
Saturday Evening; Naples, Florida
What am I doing here?
Samantha Reid fought the impulse to pull her cell out of her evening bag and check for any updates from the Situation Room. She felt anxious about slipping out of D.C. when there were so many threat scenarios crowding her inbox.
Sure, senior officials were entitled to a little time off once in a while, and her boss had okayed this short weekend trip. But as director of the White House Office of Homeland Security, she felt guilty about leaving a stack of problems on her deputy’s desk.
In spite of her apprehension, she had to smile when a valet opened the car door and she heard him mutter, “If she were any better looking, she’d need a bodyguard.”
The invitation from Tripp Adams to fly down to Naples, Florida, to visit his parents and attend a charity ball had been a welcome, if unexpected, diversion after a particularly hectic week. She had been dating him off and on for a while, but his travel schedule coupled with her long hours and increased responsibilities meant they weren’t able to see each other often. Yet, now he wanted her to spend time with his folks. Did that mean he was finally getting serious? She had no idea.
Tripp took her arm, and they followed his parents to the front entrance of the Ritz Carlton. Surrounded by mangroves and palm trees, the beige stone structure formed a U-shape with the tallest building in the center, flanked by low wings on either side, each topped with a tawny Spanish tile roof. Behind the wall to the right was a large ballroom.
Samantha brushed a strand of long brown hair off her forehead as a warm breeze blew in from the gulf. But she couldn’t brush away her worries about the intel she and the national security advisor had received. A new deluge of arms had been delivered to militant groups by what she and the advisor suspected were Russian sellers. Not corrupt government officials, though there were plenty of those.
She had been tracking a group of oligarchs who might be involved in the illicit and dangerous trade, and she knew there was a bevy of analysts back at the White House, Treasury, and CIA following the same threads. She sighed inwardly and resolved to check in with the Sit Room to get the latest when this event was over.
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