HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends controversial author and scholar David Etheridge, who is accused of murdering a state senator and a young coed who was the subject of a cold case investigation some twenty years ago at the University of Oregon.

The butcher's boy is a paid murderer, and after assassinating the senior Senator from Colorado, he has trouble collecting his fee. He must find out who really hired him, as must Elizabeth Waring, analyst and investigator from the Justice Department.

A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has loftier aspirations. But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage unexpectedly, and long before he's ready for a national campaign. The road to the White House will be more treacherous--and deadly--than Will can imagine. A courageous and principled man thrust into the spotlight, he suddenly finds himself the target of clandestine enemies who will use all their money and influence to...

"A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the VP slot by both parties' presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats."--

"Hammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, United States Senator from New York, and Jamie's lovely, very smart wife, Nicole, considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being blackmailed, and Hammer is given a list of suspects who may be behind the threats to the Senator's contemplated White House bid. But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realizes there is more to this case than just a salacious tape....