![]() ![]() Eventually, he eases up as the terrorism angle becomes integral. Ellis practically drums these and other clues into the reader, perhaps having trouble getting up to speed in reverse. She also had hacked into the victim’s computer to make it seem he sent her an e-mail that, in turn, she can use as an alibi. ![]() One of her earrings turns up at the crime scene, as does a strand of hair bearing her DNA. senators to influence their votes on legislation favoring a drug company. Pagone, it seems, killed herself after murdering a lover who was about to finger her ex-husband for bribing U.S. Initially, he focuses, as in prior novels, on political corruption. How are the events connected? Ellis takes a while to tie these threads together. In the second, American forces in the Sudan nab elusive terrorist leader Mushan al-Bakhari in “a moment for which all Americans have waited for years” (meaning Mushan is you know who). ![]() In the first, the body of best-selling novelist Allison Pagone is found in a blood-splattered bathroom, an apparent suicide. Then, in a series of flashbacks, he works through the clues behind the clues that led to these two events. Perhaps taking his cue from the film Memento, which tells its story in reverse chronology, Ellis launches his latest with the climaxes of a case that began 11 years earlier. The author of Jury of One (2004), etc., returns with another thriller in which past really is prologue. ![]()
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