The Canon Vol 4 Lie

THE TRUTH IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT MAKES IT INTO THE RECORD. After the assassination of President James Michael Kincaid, America demands answers. President Landon Bryce responds by creating the Whitmore Commission, placing Chief Justice Spencer Whitmore in charge of an investigation intended to settle the country's questions once and for all. But the Commission quickly discovers that finding evidence is only the beginning. Witnesses remember differently. Investigators interpret differently. Agencies protect their own records. And every decision about what belongs in the investigation determines what can eventually appear in its conclusions. Senator Oran Goodritch begins questioning those decisions. In Dallas, journalist Dorothy Keene begins questioning something even larger. She does not believe the story began with the shots in Dealey Plaza. She believes it began years earlier, in the relationships, decisions, contracts, intelligence operations, and political choices that gradually created the circumstances surrounding the assassination. Harlan Brigg has been tracing that history for years. Now he realizes Dorothy Keene is following the same trail. As the Whitmore Commission moves toward an official conclusion, the distance between what happened and what can be proven becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. Then the report is released. America finally has its answer. Dorothy Keene reads it. And finds the one thing she has been searching for all along: what isn't there. THE LIE is Volume Four of THE CANON, a five-volume historical political thriller about the construction of power, the shaping of evidence, and the battle over who gets to write history.