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When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in his chest is learned in a Washington, D.C. alley, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is pulled away from her bioterrorism work to aid in the investigation. Slightly digging reveals a corpse that isn't at all that of the homeless robbery victim it was setup to resemble---and Alex and her colleagues find themselves wrapped up in a complicated mystery of high-stakes international financial intrigue.
The homicide investigation is just heating up whenever a political firestorm erupts above the AFIP's possession of human skulls cut back from Vietnam thirty years earlier by American servicemen. Alex is handed the delicate task of managing the restoration and return of these grisly souvenirs. Even the President of america is becoming involved, with the actual exchange scheduled to occur at a White House ceremony. Alex knows it's an important job---her father was a soldier killed in Vietnam, so she of all people is sensitive to the problems surrounding the war---but to her it still seems like an outsized uproar over something that happened way back when. However the skulls undertake a lot more urgent significance when she uncovers proof a much bigger crime, and suddenly Alex discovers she's a target and the White House itself is under fire.
The Silent Assassin is a tour-de-force thriller combining the intricate information on forensic science with the dark side of Washington politics and one of the freshest & most original characters in crime fiction today.
