![]() Mason Quantrell, owner of a rival company, is more interested in fat contracts than useful intelligence. Peter Bunting, chief of a private-security company, is the genius behind the Wall and the Analyst. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the Wall providing a singular source of accurate information, the government's alphabet departments are losing funding, especially Homeland Security, the fiefdom of manipulatively ambitious Ellen Foster. Baldacci's realistic plot blends patriotism and naked ambition, greed and paranoia and bureaucratic infighting. On their way to meet Bergin at the prison in Maine, King and Maxwell happen upon Bergin sitting in his vehicle on an isolated road, emergency lights flashing, murdered. King has agreed to investigate the murders at the behest of defense attorney Ted Bergin, his beloved mentor. ) drops Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, Secret Service agents turned private investigators, into the mess. ![]() The Analyst, once an anonymous IRS bureaucrat with an eidetic memory and a strangely powerful intellect, now sits mute in a federal supermax prison, an accused serial killer. To keep al-Qaeda zealots, megalomaniac North Koreans with nukes and other bad guys at bay, gigabytes of real-time intelligence stream to the Wall, there to be collated and conceptualized by one man, the Analyst. ![]()
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