An NPR Best Book of the YearFrom a veteran insider with over twenty yearsâ€™ experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and

Secrets of State

An NPR Best Book of the Year

From a veteran insider with over twenty yearsâ€™ experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics.

Sam Trainorâ€™s career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment.Â Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Departmentâ€™s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems.

But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomalyâ€”the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war. Yet Sam knows that conversation canâ€™t have occurredâ€”because he is having an affair with one of the alleged participants.

As he digs into the source of this misinformation, he realizes that more is at stake than just bad intel. Someone is deliberately twisting the intelligence to stoke the simmering conflict between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals that have already fought multiple wars. And Samâ€™s new employer could be up to its neck in it.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Putnam
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-04-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780425281017

Country	USA
Brand	Putnam
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2016-04-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780425281017

Secrets of State

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