1st Case

By James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts

A rookie FBI intern faces a deadly case that could cost her everything.

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322 pages· 69,151 words

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Angela Hoot, a brilliant programmer, finds herself at the FBI's bottom rung after a hacking mishap. Her mentor secures her a spot in the Boston field office, where she must track two murderous brothers, the Poet and the Engineer. Under the watchful eye of her ambitious supervisor, William Keats, Angela's untrained curiosity becomes both her greatest asset and a dangerous liability. As she dives into the case, her obsessive nature could either solve the mystery or lead to disaster. Can Angela navigate the perilous world of crime-solving without losing herself?

From the publisher

In this thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author, genius programmer Angela Hoot has always been at the top of her class, but now she’s at the bottom of the FBI food chain–until her first case threatens everyone around her. Angela’s graduate school days at MIT come to an abrupt end when she uses her hacking skills on another student’s computer. Yet her mentor, Eve Abajian, arranges a new beginning for her–as an intern in FBI’s Boston field office. Her new supervisor, Assistant Special Agent in Charge William Keats, one of only two agents in the Northeast to make his rank before the age of thirty, sees in Angela a fellow prodigy. But Angela’s skills come with a natural curiosity, which is also a dangerous liability. With little training, Angela is quickly plunged into a tough case: tracking murderous brothers who go by the Poet and the Engineer. When Keats tells her to “watch and listen,” Angela’s mind kicks into overdrive. The obsessive thinking that earned her As on campus can prove fatal in the field.

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