By Gary H. Grossman
"The most sensible political mystery i've got learn in decades, correct up there with the superior of David Baldacci." —Michael Palmer, bestselling writer of THE SOCIETY
"Grossman has performed loads of examine on every thing from political infighting to clandestine army operations, and he manages to carry reader curiosity correct as much as the inevitable conclusion." —Publisher's Weekly
An murderer takes objective at a Presidential candidate in the course of a prime stump speech. the moment he pulls the set off, the end result of the election is irrevocably replaced. yet Democrat Teddy inn, an upcoming media sweetheart, isn't killed. His spouse is. hence, hotel emerges because the guy to overcome and the best possibility to the incumbent President, Morgan Taylor. lower than a particular directive from the President, distinct provider Agent Scott Roarke delves into the case and starts off to solve a dangerous plot that incubated for greater than 30 years; designed to change America's allegiances within the heart East. From the first actual web page, government activities culls occasions from today's headlines intersecting with a situation that's shockingly actual: An insidious plot hatched within the previous days of the Soviet Union keeps to develop to fruition within the fingers of an influence hungry center East inheritor to the throne. At its center, a sleeper is woke up to take a sought after position in American existence. govt activities is a demanding political mystery; an election 12 months page-turner, the place either the Presidency and the structure are at stake.
Read or Download Executive Actions (The Executive Series, Book 1) PDF
Similar crime books
In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley Series, Book 8)
Whilst a tender woman vanishes in London with out a hint, her MP mom turns into confident that the kidnapper is the child's father, till Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers discover an online of deception, betrayal, and loss of life.
From Publishers Weekly:
After seven outings (the final used to be taking part in for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have shaped a snug operating dating, which George performs to perfection the following. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is kidnapped after leaving a weekly song lesson now not faraway from her London domestic. Dennis Luxford, editor for a tabloid-style, decidedly anti-Conservative newspaper, gets a message threatening Charlotte until he recognizes her paternity. Bowen, a emerging superstar in the house place of work, chooses to prevent utilizing the police, realizing that disclosure of her short, long-ago fling with Luxford will spoil her politically. She has the same opinion with Luxford to invite forensic scientist Simon St. James and his assistant woman Helen (who is Lynley's lover) to enquire undercover. yet quickly a homicide attracts in Scotland backyard, permitting Lynley and Havers to steer a classy research to its electrifying and magnificent end. This soaking up story, during which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their teenagers, increases questions of parental love and accountability on numerous degrees. George's totally constructed characters will stay with the readers lengthy after the final web page is became.
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
The 1st ebook of its kind-photographs included.
moms, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.
Society is conditioned to consider murderers and predators as males, yet during this interesting e-book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of girls who kill-and the political, financial, social, and sexual implications.
From history's earliest recorded circumstances of homicidal ladies to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's infamous child-slayer Myra Hindley to 'Honeymoon Killer' Martha Beck, from the sensational murder-spree of Aileen Wournos, to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and the attractive femme fatale, Vronsky demanding situations the normal criteria of fine and evil and defies the authorized perceptions of gender function and identity.
Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse
Gangsterism, extortion and racketeering are at the moment considered as deviant, pathological behaviors which are disconnected from formal political and monetary buildings, and infrequently excluded from research within the fields of political technological know-how and economics. A serious reconsideration of geared up crime unearths that the evolution of racketeering in structures of alternate can be understood as a common phenomenon that may be envisioned with instruments from behavioral ecology initially built to version the dynamics of predator-prey family members.
It's 1663, and England is wracked with intrique and civil strife. while an Oxford don is murdered, it kind of feels initially that the incident may have not anything to do with nice issues of church and nation. Who poured the arsenic into the victim's brandy? The proof issues to Sarah Blundy, a servant woman.
- The Haunted Abbot (Sister Fidelma, Book 12)
- The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, Book 10)
- Keeping Bad Company (Liberty Lane Mystery, Book 5)
- Trap Line (Black Lizard Series, Book 2)
Extra info for Executive Actions (The Executive Series, Book 1)
Sample text
Many legal reporters were conscious of their future careers and might wish to curry favour or destroy perceived competitors. Lord Brougham often found favour with the press for being in touch with the groundswell of public opinion, but others were less popular. Lords Westbury and Lyndhurst, active political lawyers, clearly did not endear themselves to The Spectator’s lawyer–journalists, for example. 58 A later critique compared the relative merits of the intellectual capacity of Lord Brougham and the late Lord Lyndhurst, acidly asserting that ‘We purposefully choose the comparison in intellect with Lord Lyndhurst because we do not admire Lord Lyndhurst’s career.
153. 64 Ibid. 65 Ibid pp. 153–154. 66 J. ) vol. 1, p. iv. 67 Rowbotham and Stevenson, Criminal Conversations, introduction. 34 Crime News in Modern Britain were always certain to be popular reading, there were other, more apparently mundane topics which also attracted regular attention, if fewer individual column inches, such as domestic violence and petty theft. 68 In that year, the Aggravated Assaults Act 1853 had been enacted. 70 There was little will, however, to focus specifically and precisely on such domestic violence by enabling more speedy punitive responses, despite the wider acceptance of the need for women and children to receive greater protection from male violence perpetrated against them, whether in public or in private.
3 For further discussion of individual titles and crime reportage, see J. Rowbotham and K. Stevenson (eds) (2005) Criminal Conversations: Victorians Behaving Badly (Columbus: Ohio State University Press). R. Mitchell (1988) British Historical Statistics (Cambridge University Press) pp. 779–787, and the general discussion in ch. 15. A ‘Golden Era’? 1860–1885 41 increased use of the summary courts, which are amplified by the importance, in daily press coverage, of cases and other incidents from those courts.