The Morning After My Sister’s Funeral Her Boss Called Me With a Warning Not to Tell My Family

to the federal building directly from Westmont Trading Group. I did not go home first. I did not call my parents. I sat in the parking lot for about ninety seconds recalibrating, and then I went inside.

Special Agent Marcus Hail had been recommended to me by my unit’s JAG officer years earlier, during a complicated case involving a military contractor,continue reading …