As You Are Awake: Book II of the Matheson Chronicles

The case was supposed to be finished.When federal agent Logan Matheson receives a letter from imprisoned contract killer Williams Hadow, he learns that the network they dismantled together was never complete. Hidden inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons - routed through its own administrative infrastructure by a man no prosecutor ever thought to look at - a parallel network of clients has continued operating. Witnesses silenced. Informants removed. The law used as cover for everything that runs beneath it.Hadow has assembled what he can from inside a federal cell. The rest falls to Matheson.As You Are Awake picks up where the primary case ended - with the verdict behind them and a harder truth waiting in West Virginia. Matheson rebuilds his architecture: a federal judge who has been waiting for exactly this case, a forensic accountant who can follow money through a labyrinth, and Billie, a former Bureau officer who operates in the space between the institutional record and the world that record cannot see.But as the approach closes around Gerald Voss and the walls of a larger corruption, an older question resurfaces - one that began in a Chicago alley in 1998 and has never been fully answered. What was given there, and by whom, and whether it was grace or simply a careful man's choice not to look.The Matheson Chronicles continue - precise, unflinching, and built around the belief that an honest account, assembled slowly and completely, is the only form of justice that holds.

Pagina's: 376, Paperback, Independently published