Anonymous Sources by Mary Louise Kelly (English) Paperback Book

Description: Anonymous Sources by Mary Louise Kelly A fast-paced international thriller in the vein of Janet Evanovich by former NPR anchor and correspondent Mary Louise Kelly, about a Pakistani terrorists nuclear threat to blow up the White House. When Boston reporter Alexandra James is assigned to cover the death of Thom Carlyle, the son of a powerful Washington insider, she soon discovers the story is not as simple as it seems. The young man fell from the top of a Harvard bell tower, but did he jump...or was he pushed? Intent on escaping the demons of her past, Alex knows how to outwork, outdrink, and outshop anyone else around. Now she is focused on what could be "the story of a lifetime"--chasing leads from Harvard Yard to the courtyards of Cambridge, England, from a clandestine rendezvous in London to the inside of a nuclear terrorist network. But when she goes to Washington, DC, for a key interview that promises to tie everything together, Alex the hunter becomes Alex the hunted. An assassin is dispatched...her laptop disappears...her phone is tapped...and she begins to grasp that Thom Carlyle may have been killed to hide a terrifying conspiracy within the White House itself. Former NPR Intelligence correspondent Mary Louise Kelly has turned her own real-life reporting adventures into fiction with this stylish spy thriller. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Mary Louise Kelly has written two novels, The Bullet and Anonymous Sources, and spent two decades traveling the world as a reporter for NPR and the BBC. As an NPR correspondent covering the intelligence beat and the Pentagon, she has reported on wars, terrorism, and rising nuclear powers. A Georgia native, Kelly was educated at Harvard and at Cambridge University in England. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two children. Learn more at MaryLouiseKellyBooks.com. Review A great spy thriller..I couldn;t put it down. The plots great and the details are delicious. --Joel Brenner, Former Inspector General of the National Security Agency and author of America the VulnerableAnauthentic view of the media, intelligence, and terrorism that is a realpage turner. Kelly gets how the national security world really works.--Richard A. Clarke, former White House Counterterrorism Chief and author of The Scorpions GateIn Mary Louise Kellys entertaining new novel, a smart, sexy reporter wanders into the midst of a truly scary terrorist plot. In the manner of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Kellys heroine has to outfox the conspirators to escape. This book is great fun, from beginning to end.--David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post and author of BloodmoneyOneof the most genuinely chilling plots Ive ever read. A scenario thatwill haunt anyone whos ever read a newspaper. I couldnt put this bookdown.--Allison Leotta, author of Speak of the Devil Review Quote "Oneof the most genuinely chilling plots Ive ever read. A scenario thatwill haunt anyone whos ever read a newspaper. I couldnt put this bookdown." Excerpt from Book Anonymous Sources 1 TUESDAY, JUNE 22 Thomas Carlyle climbed the bell tower that night without quite planning to. Hed arrived back in Cambridge two hours before, stiff and cranky after the long flight crammed in economy class. No one was home at the house on Brattle Street. Old pizza menus were gathering dust on the floor of the front hall, and nothing was in the fridge but a withered apple and several dozen cans of his mothers Diet Coke. So hed dumped his bags and headed out. Fifteen minutes walk to the local liquor store, and then--some old homing instinct kicking in here--another ten to Eliot House. Eliot looked the same. Perhaps the most imposing of Harvards dorms, it towered above the Charles River. Red brick, wide double doors, an overflowing bike rack out front. Students lounged outside the doors, smoking and giggling. Summer school must have started. Thom caught the open door from one of them, nodded at the familiar-looking security guard, and turned right into the dining hall. It smelled of seafood--fish tacos, maybe--and frying onions. Dinner was in full swing. Thom had eaten hundreds of dinners here, and fish tacos were among his favorites. But tonight he clutched his brown paper bag and headed straight for the far doors, through an archway, and toward the stairs marked H-ENTRY. He took the stairs two or three at a time, up five flights. Then he cut down a hallway toward the door marked LEONARD BERNSTEIN 39, MUSIC ROOM AND TOWER. He dug in his jeans pocket for the key. It turned. So the lock hadnt changed either. Two more flights, darker and narrower now. The linoleum was worn thin and stained. When he reached the seventh floor, a small metal plaque informed him that Bernstein used to practice here in 1936. Yes, and it didnt look like theyd bothered to redecorate it since, Thom thought to himself. He smiled. He was in decent spirits, actually, considering the jet lag, and the girl. At the top, one last door. He jiggled the lock and it swung open. The tower room was small. Dusty. Low ceilings. Surprising, really, given the grandeur of the Eliot tower and dome from the street. In the fading light Thom took in the grand piano hulking in the middle of the room. Hed always wondered how the hell theyd hauled it up here. But the reason hed come was for the windows. Two huge and perfectly circular windows, each maybe six feet across, one framing each end of the room. The right one was long since painted shut, if it had ever opened. But the left one bore two ancient-looking brass latches. Thom unhooked them and then remembered to kick at the bottom panes, where the paint always stuck a bit. And there it was. The whole window spun open on creaky hinges. He wedged his paper bag into the crack to keep the breeze from slamming it shut again, then hooked a leg over, lowered himself onto the sill, and peered down across the steep slate roof. Senior year, he and his roommate, Joe, sometimes crawled right out across the roof, inching along until they could straddle the dormer windows. They would knock back a few beers and watch the girls crossing the courtyard, their laughter and teasing voices floating up from far below. Now he looked down at the Charles River, curving toward Boston and glowing golden at this hour. On the far bank rose the dome of Harvard Business School. Thoms destiny, the way things were going. He shook the thought from his head and cracked open one of the bottles hed purchased, walking here through Harvard Square. A thick, syrupy oatmeal stout. Not exactly the thing for this summer weather. But studying in England this past year, hed lost his taste for the watery American lager that had been the staple of his weekends here in Eliot House. Thom took another sip and watched the boats gliding along the Charles. Lord knew how many hours he himself had logged on this river. By the time he made varsity crew, the boathouse had felt more central to his college experience than any library, and the blisters across his hands had hardened like tiny stones. A sculler flitted past, then an eight-man crew. Was that Boston University? But why would they be practicing so late, and on summer break at that? He squinted and craned forward, trying to make out what colors were painted on the oars. It was at that moment that hands reached from the shadows behind him. The blow landed at the bottom of his skull. A crack of wood against bone. There was a moment of perfect silence, before Thom swung his strong arms, clawing behind him. But the foot was already on his back. One kick, but hard enough to launch him off the sill and onto the roof ten feet down. He crashed into the pointed tip of a dormer window and rolled, grabbing for a gutter, a ledge, anything. There was nothing, and he fell, wide-eyed, into the gathering twilight below. Details ISBN1476715556 Author Mary Louise Kelly Short Title ANONYMOUS SOURCES Language English ISBN-10 1476715556 ISBN-13 9781476715551 Media Book Publisher Gallery Books Format Paperback Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-03-04 Imprint Gallery Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-03-04 NZ Release Date 2014-03-04 US Release Date 2014-03-04 UK Release Date 2014-03-04 Pages 368 DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137920859;

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