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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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An examination of the Clinton sex scandals, discussing the primary roles of Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Kenneth Starr in events that led to attempts to remove Clinton from office; and exploring the motivations of other key players in the national disgrace.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Examines the growth of lobbying and its implications for American politics, detailing the organized special interest groups and their role in shaping policy and funding elections, and how lobbyists have undermined government efforts in critical areas.
64) Broken city
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York city police officer, private detective Billy Taggart takes on his toughest case yet when he's hired to follow the mayor's wife. By the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Taggart's already in too deep, with his freedom and possibly his life, on the line. Taggart will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and...
67) Turbulence
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...
68) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
69) Split second
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
71) The zero game
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"John Bekker returns in First Light to face the toughest challenge of his career as an investigator. Robert Gordon, chief of medicine at a major hospital, doesn't have long to live. He wants Bekker to locate the daughter he sold on the black market forty years earlier when he was a young widower still in medical school. Gordon's brother, a lawyer, handled the illegal transaction. Hospitalized with Alzheimer's, he doesn't remember a thing, but a detailed...
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
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect marriage of Illinois senator and presidential aspirant Lyle Simmons is held up to harsh public scrutiny when he arrives home from a fundraiser one night to find his wife, Jeanette, has been brutally murdered, and as Washington D.C. detective Charles Chang looks for answers, Simmons' longtime friend Phil Rotondi, a one-time suitor of Jeanette's, must decide whether or not to reveal what he knows.
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,...
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