Who Was the White Home Mole?
Earlier than Rose’s aunt and uncle had been murdered of their Virginia house by a employed murderer, she overheard them discussing a White Home mole, the codename “Osprey”, and the specter of an assault on US soil. The mole turned out to be US vice chairman Ashley Redfield, who was working together with Gordon Wick, the rich head of army contract provider Flip Lake, who’d bankrolled Redfield’s political campaigns for years.
“Osprey” was Omar Zadar, a Balkan dissident and the chief of the Folks’s Independence Entrance or PIF political group. US president Michelle Travers was constructing bridges with Zadar and planning to help his management bid in his personal nation, however Redfield and Wick didn’t need that to occur – Redfield as a result of he noticed Zadar as a terrorist, and Wick as a result of Zadar was protesting in opposition to Flip Lake’s profitable army contracts in his area and so Zadar’s premiership might lose his firm billions of {dollars}.
The Metro Bombing Conspiracy
A yr earlier than the principle motion of The Evening Agent, Redfield and Wick tried to kill Zadar whereas he was on US soil by orchestrating a bombing on a metro prepare that will explode a gasoline line and take out a number of metropolis blocks overlaying Zadar’s location. Sadly for them, low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland occurred to be in the identical prepare carriage because the bomb was planted. Peter noticed the bomber, discovered the explosive, stopped the prepare, evacuated the automobile and saved numerous lives.
This was dangerous information for Redfield and Wick, who had been compelled to convey White Home Chief of Employees Diane Farr into their conspiracy to get assist in overlaying up their bombing. Farr reluctantly agreed to assist due to her loyalty to the president, and so employed Peter Sutherland for a job on the White Home to regulate him and since he would make a helpful fall man if something ought to go fallacious with the cover-up. Peter’s identify could be simple to smear as a result of his father, a fellow FBI agent, was charged with promoting state secrets and techniques earlier than he died prematurely. Farr helped Redfield and Wick body the PIF for the bombing in one other try and discredit Omar Zadar.
Who Killed Rose’s Aunt and Uncle?
Emma and Henry Campbell had been Rose’s closest surviving household. They had been killed by employed assassins Dale and Ellen, who had been working for Wick, Redfield and Diane Farr (see above) as a result of they had been near exposing the Metro bombing conspiracy.
The Campbells had been undercover secret brokers working for Evening Motion – the elite group of operatives to which Peter is ultimately recruited. When Rose’s aunt and uncle had been attacked, she referred to as the emergency telephone quantity they’d given her, which was answered by Peter, whose new job was to employees the Evening Motion telephone in a single day shifts within the White Home basement. Peter coached Rose by her escape and was assigned to guard her when she turned a witness in her aunt and uncle’s murders.
