When a literary agent receives an encrypted book proposal from a notorious assassin, she finds herself trapped in the violent grip of a global conspiracy.
In 2005 in a remote region of Nepal, Victoria Penrose, a satellite agent for a venerable New York City literary firm, witnesses the assassination of a famous Buddhist monk.
In Philadelphia exactly four years later, she responds to an encrypted book proposal from a retired intelligence operative code-named Galileo, and immediately finds herself trapped in the violent grip of a global conspiracy which pursues her to London, Berlin, Istanbul, and finally back to Nepal, where at the scene of the 2005 crime she unravels the conspiracy - and turns the tables on it.
As Victoria finds herself caught in a twilight realm between abusers of official authority and those who risk everything to stand up to them, THE SATELLITE AGENT emerges as a paean to the enduring power of friendship and love in a treacherous and cold-blooded world.
Although the novel is written with the entertaining flair of a 007-style global chase, beneath its sleek surface lurks a serious exposition on the moral ambiguities of government actions in the war on terror.