The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer 449 pages

The Inner Circle begins with an old high school crush contacting Beecher White who is an archivist at the National Archives. Clementine is trying to find the father she never knew. She only knows that he was in the Army and all U. S. Government records are filed somewhere in the National Archives. The first meeting of Beecher and Clementine finds them embroiled in the death of one of Beecher's friends and co-workers. They also find themselves in the middle of secrets being passed between the President of the United States and a secret spy organization that has served the Presidency since George Washington formed the spy network. Mix in a second secret spy network, Clementine's father who has been institutionalized since he attempted to kill a president and succeeded in killing that president’s first lady. All participants work at the same time to confuse and to enlist Beecher into each side’s agenda which causes danger, death and distrust. As with all of Meltzer’s books there is no direct path to the answer. The book is riddled with little known historical facts and some twisting of well known historical events. The end of the book answers many questions but leads the reader to believe that there is more to the story that will be told in a future release.