An exiled political operative in search of redemption is drawn back into her past in a piercing thriller about secrets, scandals, and capital chaos by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In another life, Agatha Cardiff was Congressman Paul Paxton’s chief of staff, a coolheaded fixer who made all his problems disappear. At Paxton’s behest, she covered up a shocking scandal that would have ruined a powerful senator’s career. It was one moral compromise too far and Agatha vowed, Never again . After twenty years in exile, Agatha’s life in the margins of Washington, DC, is about to become much more difficult. The rules have changed in her absence―that senator is now president, and Paxton, number three in the House, expects a nomination to the Supreme Court. After all, he knows where the president’s skeletons are buried. At the same time, Agatha’s quiet life on Capitol Hill shatters when her tenant―a woman with complex connections to DC―vanishes. Suddenly, Agatha is drawn back into a mire of corruption, blackmail, and deception precisely when she can least afford it. Any hope of redemption won’t come easy, because the true cost of Agatha’s sins is finally coming to light, and it is far from certain who will pay. Praise for Matthew FitzSimmons The Slate “Proof that the fiction of hard-knuckle political intrigue can still be stranger than the truth, at least this week.” ― Kirkus Reviews “Matthew FitzSimmons breaks out of the pack of DC novels of politics and crime with The Slate , a sobering ticking-clock(s) screen of Washington power beyond mere election fraud―and he does so with strong twenty-first-century kick-ass women. While FitzSimmons spotlights evils like political corruption, human trafficking, and murder, what makes The Slate stand out is its climax core: redemption.” ―James Grady, creator of Condor and author of The Smoke in Our Eyes “Matthew Fitzsimmons has skillfully woven together the stories of Agatha, Shelby, and Felix into a compelling and taut mystery… The Slate is a masterful novel.” ― Marilyn’s Mystery Reads Chance “FitzSimmons hooks readers with the clone angle and then expertly mixes SF and mystery tropes till he’s implicated every party in sight in some sort of crime or cover-up. A seriously playful novel of ideas.” ― Kirkus Reviews Constance An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Science Fiction & Fantasy “Maybe what we need most as this bewildering summer winds down is a diverting story about an interesting futuristic topic that injects no new anxiety into our nervous brains…[ Constance ] shines in its interstitial moments…In between the sleuthing and the schemes for world domination and the eluding of people with guns, we are invited to grapple with genuinely thoughtful questions about the philosophical, legal, and ethical implications of cloning and scientific innovation in general…The debates around cloning in Constance echo many of our contemporary preoccupations―skepticism of science, radical mistrust of those with opposing views, conspiracy theories.” ―Sarah Lyall, critic, The New York Times “Full of technological surprises and ethical dilemmas, this inventive thriller hums with the electric excitement of the best 1950s science fiction.” ―Tom Nolan, critic, The Wall Street Journal “In this timely thriller, tantalizing clues, complex motives, and shifting views of the truth flow around such issues as the relationship between money and power, the right to life, and the definition of self. FitzSimmons has upped his game with this one.” ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A super-brainy high-concept dystopian tale guaranteed to reward anyone who’s in the mood.” ― Kirkus Reviews “A propulsive sci-fi thriller that questions the very nature of what makes us human.” ―POPSUGAR “What a book! Like all the best speculative fiction, FitzSimmons’s compelling thriller Constance takes elements of real science and spins them up into a novel and terrifying premise.” ―Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion “ Constance is a blistering, balletic read―silky-smooth world-building that effortlessly grounds a wonderful, harrowing tale of mystery, suspense, identity, friendship, and redemption. This is, for all its twists, turns, and tricks, a novel that does what a novel should do: examine what makes us human after all. Genuinely one of the best books I have read in a long, long time.” ―Greg Rucka, New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Old Guard Origami Man “FitzSimmons brings Gibson Vaughn and an old enemy full circle in Origami Man ―an intricately plotted, rapid-fire thriller guaranteed to hook you from page one. Easily the best Gibson Vaughn installment to date.” ―Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author “Matthew FitzSimmons’s rapid-fire novels are loaded with twisted plots, explosive action, and dialogue that crackles with wit and emotion. His bighearted c