Matter of Record

Some records preserve history. Others create it.When secret service agent-turned-biographer Ethan Cole is granted access to a classified archive hidden inside a presidential library, he expects to find secrets.He does not expect to find evidence that an entire chapter of American history has been rewritten.What begins as a routine research project quickly becomes something far more dangerous. A forgotten government commission. A vanished witness. A file that was never meant to exist. As Ethan follows a trail buried beneath decades of official records, he discovers contradictions that should be impossible and powerful interests determined to keep the past exactly where it is.Every answer raises new questions.Every document points somewhere it shouldn't.And someone is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the truth remains classified.As the investigation reaches the highest levels of government, Ethan finds himself caught between competing versions of history, each supported by evidence, each protected by people with everything to lose. The deeper he digs, the harder it becomes to distinguish fact from fabrication and truth from the stories nations tell themselves.Because if the record can be altered, what else can be rewritten?Combining the page-turning suspense of classic political thrillers with a modern conspiracy rooted in records, memory, and power, Matter of Record is a gripping, intelligent thriller about the dangerous gap between what happened and what history says happened.The truth is a matter of record.