The Lion Sleeps - Paperback

by Peggy Poe Stern (Author)

A patriotic young government staffer, recruited and trained by the Freedom Group to root out corruption, mistakenly furnishes her findings to the top Intelligence Director, who summons her to meet with him...

"Do you want to live or die?" Brigham asked as though there was a chance I would answer the latter.
"Need you ask? I returned with my usual degree of sarcasm.
"Then you have one chance and one chance only."
"I refuse to run and hide like I'm the criminal," I told him stubbornly. I've worked undercover for the past five years. "I've survived this long, and I can continue to survive."

Told that her death was going to be faked, she is taken and placed in a helicopter, but...