A List of People to Fear

Samira Nasser follows dark money through passport lines, hotel lobbies, and donor rooms that smell like perfume and power. A wax-sealed Cedar invitation pulls her into a no-phone night of cedar smoke and staged ritual-then turns her notebook into a liability the moment she gets home.The newsroom doesn't protect her. It protects itself: subpoena, suspension, drafts shaved down under fluorescent light with redaction blades.In a DC townhouse salon, Miriam Vale offers a clean exit in a sealed envelope. Take it, retract, go back to work. Refuse, and the pressure stops feeling political the first time her mother misses the call. Jobic Chakalisa is the bestselling author of The Diamond Curse, Target: Tehran, and North Korea's Secret Weapon. He currently lives in Chicago. He has always been a movie lover, and this certainly shines through in the way he writes his novels. You won't get lost in over-description, time will never be wasted on characters that have nothing to do with the story, and every single chapter has meaning. Jobic has only ever had one goal with his work, and that is to entertain. And he hopes your escape into his pages have at the very least done that.