Sunday, August 23, 2020

Clean hands

Clean Hands: a novel by Patrick Hoffman, 280 pgs.

Corporate power lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure.  A junior associate has his phone stolen...the phone has a LOT of very sensitive documents on it and no pass code.  If that information gets in the wrong hands, the whole firm may be in jeopardy.  She calls in her "fixer" ex-CIA agent Valencia Walker who manages to get the phone back.  Unfortunately, the information was stolen and the firm is being blackmailed.  Walker doubles back and finds the blackmailers and stamps out that issue but as she does, anonymous information is leaked to the Wall Street Journal. How did this grow so big so quick? Well, I'm certainly not going to add a spoiler, if you like fast moving intricate thrillers, this one might be for you.

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