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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, through allegations of a thoroughly corrupt medical and dental university, through Mafia influence at all levels, to a governor who suddenly declares himself a "gay...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Language
English
Description
Sixteen stories of true crime from America's foremost authority on the underworld James "Whitey" Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath -- who also happened to be a secret FBI informant -- his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpin's legend grew to rival that of Al Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Washington D.C. was first built, it was on top of a swamp that had to be drained. Donald Trump says it's time to drain it again.
In The Swamp, bestselling author and Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an infuriating, amusing, revealing, and outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining...
Author
Series
Jake Logan volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media. A twisty, nonstop conspiracy thriller that only has one gear: high! The Network delivers.Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author This is mandatory reading for any thriller aficionado.- Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author A shadowy group is manipulating society-and they've only just begun. Late one...
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An investigation into how legislators have taken advantage of their positions -- and of weak financial disclosure laws -- to make millions. After a historic financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The American people are deeply divided about one thing: the belief that Washington is rife with government corruption. The concern over widespread corruption is growing. #2 The new form of corruption in Washington involves large sums of money that are being funneled to the families and friends of politicians who are making influential decisions that affect everything...
12) The zero game
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Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, was spending $820 a night at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles in May 2018, indulging in a $650-per-day Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder from Legends Car Rentals. He was also spending $1,000 a week on porn. #2 Hunter's escapades with Yanna, a Russian escort, are a glimpse into the debauched lifestyle of the president's son. But his finances...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
Author
Publisher
Trine Day LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The July 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his subsequent death that August brought national as well as international attention to a sex ring where certain members of the power elite sexually abused and exploited female minors and young women. Epstein's death, officially ruled a suicide, has been treated skeptically by many, for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the real circumstances of his death, it has led to scores of Americans embracing the...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The July 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and his subsequent death that August brought national as well as international attention to a sex ring where certain members of the power elite sexually abused and exploited female minors and young women. Epstein's death, officially ruled a suicide, has been treated skeptically by many, for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the real circumstances of his death, it has led to scores of Americans embracing the...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"[Gore] knows how to hook his readers from the opening line." --Richard North Patterson Graham Gage is back! The private investigator with an unfailing moral compass--whom Cornelia Read, author of The Crazy School, calls a "James Bond for grown-ups"--returns in Power Blind, another high-stakes political thriller from Steven Gore. The murder of a "fixer" for the wealthy and corrupt puts Gage on the trail of a conspiracy that threatens American democracy,...
Author
Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's the statehouses, stupid." Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan -- and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump's "Big Lie" -- it's anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy. Because these statehouses no longer operate as functioning democracies, these unknown politicians have...
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Language
English
Description
"The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in Hunter's laptop almost derailed his father's presidential...
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