A list of smart, suspenseful works that offer an insight into the intrigues of modern political life.
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Description: American intelligence agents plan an terrorist attack to trigger a war against Iran.
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Description: Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the President of the United States….
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Description: Beck’s thriller considers the consequences the nation will soon face if its citizens continue to take their freedom for granted.
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Description: Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough.
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Description: In New York, a tale of political chicanery and murder during a senatorial election.
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Description: A burlesque U.S. federal election in which one candidate is 114 years old, another is contesting it while in a coma and a third promises to extend daylight saving time to the whole year. A satire on politics.
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Description: The brutal murders of two senators and a congressman set off a media frenzy–and the assassins have released their demands: the country’s leaders must put America back on track, or the killing will continue.
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Description: Rising to the American presidency after the president dies, Daryn Austin confronts a difficult choice after the man she loves, Supreme Court justice Paul Santana, turns against her in the face of radical challenges to his faith.
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Description: An American president refuses to attack Indonesia for a terrorist hit on a U.S. ship, so Congress goes over his head and an aircraft carrier strikes.
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Description: Wes Bryant takes over as press secretary for an old friend who is running for the Senate, yet something keeps nagging at him.
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Description: Ace reporter Jack Flynn learns that his beloved Boston record is the target of a hostile takeover bid. He’s also sitting on a story that could scuttle the president’s controversial nomination for the next U.S. Attorney General.
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Description: When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon selects as a replacement Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case.
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Description: After the Democratic presidential nomination is stolen by Senate Majority Leader Salmon Stanley in a bitter credentials fight at the nominating convention, Bob Long, the moderate Governor of California, shocks the political establishment by launching an independent bid for the Presidency.
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Description: Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh … and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.
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Description: A dynamic backwoods lawyer batters his way into the governor’s mansion, where he uses his unprincipled charm to become a brutal dictator.
Some titles may be available in other formats (large type, audiobook, downloadable, etc). A staff member can help you to locate other versions.
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2011