“We need to talk,” was the first thing Priest heard when he answered the phone. He recognized the slightly gravelly voice of Dr. Matthew Bordrick, a psychologist whose job is to screen people before they take up assignments directed by the White House. Priest was interviewed by him just before he flew to Vienna a couple years back for the case involving DFR Wien.
Bordrick knew that Priest had been called about the Paletti Notebook. Whether he got that intel from tapping his phone or poking around in his computer searches, Priest wasn’t sure. But he seemed well versed in Priest’s conversations with Bao. At first, Priest thought the back-and-forth he had on the telephone with Vienna would be the subject of this call with Bordrick, until he opened up about Paletti himself and the contents of
