The Girl With Two Names: Hevi

Ensign Samantha Williams reports to an intelligence analysis cell in Suitland, Maryland, thirty days after graduation. She files her briefs. She watches the same supervisor return the same analysis, every time, within twenty minutes. Forty-two briefs in twenty months. Never an outlier.She has been watching the pattern. She did not know the pattern was watching her back.When Vance sets a classified record on the table, Sam reads the date twice. Three months after her Naval Academy enrollment, a contractor firm was already building a file on her and her grandmother. Not because of anything Sam had done. Because of a name. Two women on opposite sides of the world, connected on paper before Sam knew her grandmother existed in any system.They did not discover the connection. They started with it.What she maps is a network running from a Washington policy firm through a federal contractor and into the analysis cell where her briefs are suppressed on a sixteen-minute cycle. The supervisor is not conspiring. He is executing a protocol he received as legitimate standing policy. The distinction matters, because it tells Sam exactly where to aim.Khalid al-Tikriti waits in Istanbul. He has not stopped. He never does.Hêvî (Hope) is the third book in Patrick Guy Daniels’ The Girl With Two Names series. If you’ve been following Sam Williams from Annapolis, you know she wins through documentation, not force. In this book, she finds out the enemy has been reading her file. Read more