02421cam a2200361 i 4500 1164405541 TxAuBib 20150625120000.0 150513s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015019195 9780399165719 hardback 0399165711 hardback (OCoLC)893895069 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA YDXCP BDX UPZ OCLCF OCLCO JAO TxAuBib rda Palmer, Matthew, 1966- Secrets of state / Matthew Palmer. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2015] ©2015. 419 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Map on endpapers. "Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems. But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomaly--the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war. Yet Sam knows that conversation can't have occurred--because he is having an affair with one of the alleged participants. As he digs into the source of this misinformation, he realizes that more is at stake than just bad intel. Someone is deliberately twisting the intelligence to stoke the simmering conflict between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals that have already fought multiple wars. And Sam's new employer could be up to its neck in it"-- Provided by publisher. 20150625. Intelligence service Juvenile fiction. International relations Fiction. Government contractors Fiction. Political fiction. Suspense fiction. 9780399165719.jpg Cover image TXKIP