Imogen Trager

Matthew Yamashita, a young researcher, uncovers a series of suspicious deaths among Electors while collecting polling data. Seven have died, seemingly by accident, and he's the only one with a national list tracking all Electors. No one else has put it together. The lists are tracked state-by-state and no two Electors have died in any given state. Matthew and his mentor, Duncan Calder, get to work trying to figure out why it's happening. While the suspicious deaths are only on their radar, they're already in the sights of the conspirators. When FBI agent Imogen Trager is first confronted with the evidence she's skeptical, but as she glimpses how deep the plot goes, and how high, she too begins to fear for her life. Who can she trust, and how can she follow the trail? The legitimacy of the presidency hangs in the balance. Can she save America from a web of corruption without a name? There are fewer than three weeks until the real presidential election.

Imogen Trager, the determined heroine of the "highly suspenseful" thriller, Faithless Elector, returns. Pushed to the edges of the investigation for her conduct during the Faithless Elector plot, she starts digging, where no one else thinks to look. She enlists the help of a computer analyst, Trey Kelly. Together, by flipping the script and scrutinizing gaps in the FBI's data, they find the backdoor no one thought to lock, uncovering the trail of a vast, coordinated group of criminal cells woven into a sinister dark network, with threads leading everywhere. She'll have to fight against time, the network, and even her own colleagues to stop a conspiracy still bent on stealing the presidency. In the process, she'll have to confront her own views on what the Constitution is meant to protect and who she's becoming. Even if she and Trey are successful, what kind of America will remain?

The accidental president is no accident. The investigation that was FBI Agent Imogen Trager's undoing may be the key to stopping a brutal, false flag terrorist attack meant to tighten a puppet president's grip on power. Emergency Powers has a ripped-from-the-headlines urgency: a fractious FBI, an undermined Attorney General, powerful people twisting and abusing the rule of law. But, it's more than headlines about things people think they know. And, darker. When the president dies in office, Imogen knows that the conspiracy she chased down a blind alley still has life in it-and she needs to get back in the hunt. As bodies pile up and leads go cold, the main target from that old case reaches out to her. He's still at large, and now he needs protection. Imogen doesn't trust him, and it's not only because he's offering intel that sounds too good to be true. He's already tried to kill her once. Well written and seamlessly crafted, Emergency Powers is a wonderful discovery, a tense, timely, thriller with canny political insight. But, it's the three tough female characters, who steal the show and will stay with you.