Title: Deep State
Author: Chris Hauty
Author: Chris Hauty
Publication: Simon & Schuster, hardcover, January 2020
Genre: Suspense
Plot: Hayley Chill, who joined the military to get out of West Virginia yet sends most of her salary home to her family, is now beginning an internship at the White House. Driven and patriotic, she is more mature than the college students with whom she is sharing projects and distinguishes herself from the beginning. First, she helps bring down a trespasser on White House grounds and then when a jealous colleague tries to sabotage her work, she saves her boss from embarrassment and impresses him and the President. However, when her boss dies suddenly, Hayley is the only one who wonders if it was more than a natural death. Soon, she has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens the President, and anyone – such as Hayley – who gets in the way, in a thriller that seems realistic enough to be true . . .
