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Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, DC. But when one such ambitious young secretary turns up dead in a locked hotel room, Michaelson suddenly realizes just how much she knew...and that the killer might now be after him. Now everyone is clamoring to get their hands on the mysterious document in the dead woman's possession. Soon investigators,...
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IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
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A battle with enemy troops just outside Washington, DC. The humiliating defeat of American soldiers. Residents fleeing the city in terror. The White House in flames. That was the scene on August 24, 1814. There were no television cameras or on-the-scene reporters--but there were those who recorded the events in their diaries, letters, and memoirs. The president and his wife, a teenage soldier, a nine-year-old slave--their words bring to life the shock...
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Josie Kendall volume 01
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Josie Kendall is a new player in the D.C. political scene, working for an "activist fundraising organization," while her husband Rafe, a longtime Washington insider, is on a new track as a literary agent while supporting Josie as she learns the political ropes. When the shady customer Josie was hitting up for a million dollars for alternative energy funding turns up dead, and the police suspect Josie of adultery and Rafe of homicide, they have to...
4) The fight: a Secret Service agent's inside account of security failings and the political machine
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What events led a veteran Secret Service agent at the top of his profession, with no political experience, to resign his position and run for office, nearly pulling off the unlikeliest of upsets as a Republican in a deep-blue state? More importantly, what insight on issues from national and personal security to big politics can be gleaned from his successes as a Secret Service agent and failures in politics? As a former member of the elite Presidential...
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"As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their assignment is to test weather currents and patterns, but that's a lie. Their delivery of a mysterious microscopic payload called Gold Dust from a hired crop duster coincides with fourteen-year-old Pepper Parker's discovery of an ancient gold coin in her dad's possession. Her adolescent...
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