Anonymous Sources

Alexandra James, a reporter for the New England Chronicle, stumbles into a story that would make her

running around searching for clues that would lead her to a conspiracy seated within the White House itself.

Thom Carlyle, son of an influential man in Washington, the US President's lawyer, fell from the Harvard Bell Tower on a summer night, just hours from his return from Cambridge. As a reporter, Alex is bound to be resourceful just to get ahead and get the inside scoop of things. As clues emerge, questions rise as to whether Thom simply fell or was pushed. 

With only little information to conclude Thom's death, Alex flies to Cambridge where she is led into a maze of unknowns, clueless of the connection between them. As she tries to piece together the boggling puzzle that she's in, Alex finds herself hunted, with planned murders she merely escaped by accident. With the realization that she dug up information on a planned terrorist attack, Alex desperately races against time as she battles doubts from people in the White House and trying to save lives from an attack that would change the course of history. 

With the common theme of terrorism nowadays, Anonymous Sources is not at all boring and a cliche. Mary Louise Kelly put some elements to spice up the story, including the protagonists relationships with the different people she met along the way. In the book, you'd get to understand the way a reporter's life is lived, with all the rule-breaking, rendezvous and tight situations that they get in just to deliver the story to the public, even risking their lives while they're at it. The adrenaline rush that the people experienced in the book is also translated to the reader, making the experience as your own. It was interesting as I tried to connect the dots in the story, trying to know the who and why behind the what, and eventually landing in a conclusion that satisfied all the intriguing aspects of the story.