Anonymous Sources

Former NPR correspondent Kelly makes her fiction debut with a suspenseful spy thriller that careens from Cambridge, MA, to Cambridge, England, and on to Washington, DC. Alexandra James, a young newspaper reporter, covers the higher education beat in Boston, so when former student Thomas Carlyle takes a fatal fall out of a dorm window at Harvard, Alex is there for the story. It soon becomes clear that Thom's death was not an accident, and Alex jets off to Cambridge University to interview Thom's recent classmates. There, Alex finds handsome postgrad Lord Lucien Sly and a suspicious Pakistani nuclear scientist who has been mysteriously receiving very large crates of bananas. Her questioning catches the interest of someone at the CIA, and Alex is warned off the case. Still not sure whether she's on a wild goose chase, she heads to Washington to interview Thom's father. As all the pieces come together and her life is threatened, Alex tries to convince the White House that there's an imminent terrorist threat, filing stories all the while.