He had taken an Uber to a coffee shop down the street, ordered some food, and was now walking the rest of the way. The tall man striding down the tree-lined sidewalk was Walter Dabney. So the opening of a new headquarters was about two billion dollars and seven years away. The Bureau was trying to build a new facility to house eleven thousand employees, but a new location hadn’t even been chosen. There was even safety netting strung around the top of the building to catch chunks of crumbling concrete before they could fall to the street below and kill someone. It opened in 1975 and had not aged well-a blocks-long chunk of badly dilapidated concrete with honeycomb windows, and fire alarms and toilets that didn’t work. Edgar Hoover Building was the world headquarters of the FBI. I T WAS NORMALLY one of the safest places on earth.
Forced into an uneasy alliance with Agent Brown, Decker remains laser-focused on only one goal: solving the case before it’s too late. Critical information may have been leaked to a hostile government - or worse, an international terrorist group - and an attack may be imminent.ĭecker’s never been one to follow the rules, especially with the stakes so high. The murder is part of an open DIA investigation, one so classified that Decker and his team aren’t cleared for it.īut they learn that the DIA believes solving the murder is now a matter of urgent national security. An agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, she orders Decker to back off the case. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive for the attack.Įnter Harper Brown. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter - a family man with a successful consulting business - and his victim, a schoolteacher. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Įven with Decker’s extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. In this “perfect ‘fix’ for the thriller aficionado” ( Associated Press) and #1 New York Times bestseller, maverick FBI detective Amos Decker must forge an uneasy alliance with the Defense Intelligence Agency to prevent an international incident that could spell the end of the United States as we know it.Īmos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters.
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