β Scribed by David Ignatius
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"You emerge from its pages as if from a top-level security briefing--confident that you have been let in on the deepest secrets."--Washington Post Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA unit trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why. Unfortunately for Sophie, nothing is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and revenge, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.
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