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When a high-level weapons scientist inexplicably drops dead at the Pentagon, Air Force Major Margit Falk must flesh out a case against the prime suspect--a senior officer rumored to be a homosexual. 100,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main.

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  • Mackensie Smith: Former attorney now a Professor of Law at George Washington University
  • Annabel Reed-Smith: Former attorney now owner of a pre-Columbian art gallery in Georgetown. Married to Mackensie Smith
  • Major Margit Falk: Air Force Major assigned to the Pentagon. Helicopter pilot and attorney. Student of Mackensie Smith.
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The upper quandrant of a sun that would scorch the desert blossomed on the horizon, livid red and rising fast into an inky sky.

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This is book 11 of 25 in Capital Crimes. (standard series)

Preceded by Murder at the National Cathedral, and followed by Murder on the Potomac.

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  1. Margaret Truman (Author)

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