For Shelby Wexler, being crushed under tons of concrete is just the beginning of a bad afterlife. As a senior official of the CIA, he had thought Congressional oversight was the highest form of retribution. He never considered postmortem accountability. Enter Virgil, an obnoxious and expired polygraph examiner, who sends flat Shelby on a backwards journey through the events leading up to the terrorist attack that killed him. Who was responsible? Who dropped the ball? The answers are not the sort likely to surface in a Senate hearing room.
The Flat Bureaucrat
is the stand-alone sequel to Susan Hasler's hilarious and terrifying first novel,
Intelligence
. Informed by Hasler's twenty-one years in the CIA, these books will make you laugh, make you think, and perhaps keep you up at night.