Lies have to be maintained forever.

The truth just sits there, patient, waiting to be added up.

Chapter 16 — The Name Behind the Name

There was a second revelation, and it was the one that undid her.

The detectives had been puzzled by Sterling’s recognition of her, by the way he had said her name at the foot of the stairs, and they had pulled the thread, and the thread led backward out of the airline and into another life entirely, into the years before Sterling had ever held a corporate title.

He had not always been a Director of Flight Operations.