Carrie-

Story

Alexandra Kim Lee

In the summer of August 27, 2001 in Hong Kong her darling tosses Victoria Kim Lee a beautiful
woman from the terrace of their twenty-eighth floor penthouse. Before leaving he kills her maid
and the building's doorman too to insure there are no witnesses or any prints.

Interview

Carolyn Carrie Jane MacNeil 29 interviewed by FBI Special Agent S.V. Andrews

Interviewed about the murder of Ms. Lee and Karen Ann Hermann

Witnesses:

Mr. Frank Tucker- office of the Director of Central Intelligence

Mr. Mark Huxley- MI-6 British forein intelligence service.

In the spring of April 2, 2002 in London England, someone assassinates an innocent American
student Karen Ann Hermann. The visitor harmed no one, but died in a hail of bullets.

In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior
CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle?

These events are no accidents, it seems, when it is discovered that the woman in Hong Kong had
a CIA lover. That the London murder was a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended target
was the wife of CIA senior deputy Drum MacNeil, who has since gone missing.

To find MacNeil, investigators are taking a close look at his past actions, public and private. And
at his restless wife, Carrie, who is doing her best to play the part of the innocent victim, even
though it's increasingly clear that Drum's life has been a carefully constructed lie.
Carrie MacNeil is about to learn firsthand about the evil of treachery. And in this business there
are no fair-trade rules. It's always a liar's market.

In the summer of 2002, the CIA and the FBI interrogate Carrie McNeil over these two seemingly
unrelated incidents and the disappearance of her spouse, Drummond CIA London bureau chief.
Photos and other evidence prove Drum had an affair with Lee. Could Karen Ann who looks
somewhat like the almost thirty year old Carrie been mistaken for Drum's wife? The CIA
believes so and is near panic over what Drum will do next but not as much as they are concerned
with how Carrie will react now that she knows he wants her dead.

Though Drum's motives are not revealed until very late, LIAR'S MARKET is a terse political
espionage thriller that hooks readers from the moment Lee is tossed off the terrace. The story line
never slows down until the final cover-up funeral. Carrie is a fine character who is like a lion
protecting her cub at all costs for she now fears her unmasked husband may harm their son
though he does not appear to be a murder target of Drum. This is a solid thriller that showcases
Taylor Smith's ability to hook her audience from start to finish.