Past Perfect: A Novel Susan Isaacs,
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1416572082
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2008-06-10
Summary:
In Past Perfect, Susan Isaacs gives us one of her most glorious
characters ever: bright, buoyant, and borderline luscious Katie
Schottland. Katie seems to have the ideal life: a great husband, a
precocious and winning ten-year-old son, and a dream job -- writer
for the long-running TV series Spy Guys. But all is not as splendid
as it should be because writing about the espionage business isn't
nearly as satisfying as working in it.Fifteen years earlier, Katie
was in the CIA. She loved her job (to say nothing of her boss, the
mysterious Benton Mattingly). Yet just as she was sensing she was in
line for a promotion, she was fired -- escorted off the premises by
two extremely hulking security types. Why? No one would tell her:
when you're expelled from the Agency, warm friends immediately become
icy ex-colleagues who won't risk their security clearances by talking
to you.Until that day, Katie was where she wanted to be. Coming from
a family of Manhattan superachievers, she too had a job she not only
adored but a job that made her, in the family tradition, a Someone.
Fifteen years later, Katie is still stuck on her firing. Was she set
up? Or did she make some terrible mistake that cost lives? She
believes that if she could discover why they threw her out, she might
be at peace.On the day she's rushing to get her son off to summer
camp, Katie gets a surprise call from former Agency colleague Lisa
Golding. "A matter of national importance," says Lisa, who promises
to reveal the truth about the firing -- if Katie will help her. Lisa
was never very good at truth-telling, though she swears she's changed
her ways. Katie agrees to speak with her, but before she can, Lisa
vanishes.Maturity and common sense should keep Katie in the bright,
normal world of her present life, away from the dark intrigues of the
past. But she needs to know. As she takes just a few steps to find
out, one ex-spy who might have the answers dies under suspicious
circumstances. Another former agent is murdered. Could it be there's
a list? If so, is Katie now on it? And who will be the next to go?
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