Addison Moore is a 25-year-old Executive Corporate Communications Specialist at Unalco World Headquarters in 1989. Beautiful, intelligent, and intensely ambitious, she is steadily climbing the corporate ladder and already moves comfortably among senior executives, consultants, and important corporate guests. She helps coordinate high-profile events such as Unalco’s Global Communicators Conference and has learned that presentation, preparation, and self-control are essential to succeeding in the executive world.
Addison is poised, disciplined, and highly self-possessed. At work, she favors tailored skirts, crisp blouses, understated heels, black-framed glasses, and blond hair pulled neatly away from her face. She is cordial and professional but selective with her attention, often appearing more serious and authoritative than her young age would suggest. She takes care of herself physically and approaches her appearance with the same precision she brings to her career.
She has a pronounced taste for quality clothing, elegant surroundings, expensive purchases, and the finer things in life. However, Addison is not shallow. Away from Unalco, she is an independent and curious reader who can spend an afternoon drinking coffee in a bookstore while absorbed in a provocative novel such as Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, even with several Kaufmann’s shopping bags sitting beside her. Her polished exterior conceals a thoughtful private life and a warmer, less guarded personality that few people immediately see.
Young materials engineer Hank Raglan is captivated by Addison from their earliest encounters at Unalco. Their professional acquaintance gradually develops into a genuine romance, drawing out a more affectionate and vulnerable side of her personality. Addison eventually becomes engaged to Hank and expects to build a successful, comfortable life with him. That future is shattered when Hank mysteriously disappears during a business trip to Kuwait City on August 2, 1990.
