House Privilege |
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Author:
| Lawson, Mike |
Series title: | The Joe Demarco Thrillers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8021-4849-0 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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A Washington fixer takes on a simple babysitting job for a powerful politician--that soon escalates into embezzlement and murder: "Excellent."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, who's now her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send...
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A Washington fixer takes on a simple babysitting job for a powerful politician--that soon escalates into embezzlement and murder: "Excellent."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, who's now her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal with his new ward, but she's unavailable--so he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl's okay.
DeMarco's job is only to put things into a holding pattern until Mrs. Mahoney is able to step in--but DeMarco unintentionally flips over a rock and out from under it crawls a lawyer, the one managing Cassie's vast estate. DeMarco learns the lawyer has been embezzling--and may have killed Cassie's parents.
What should have been a simple assignment soon unleashes murderous plots involving a Boston mob boss and his thugs, and DeMarco ends up chasing the scheming lawyer halfway around the world to save Cassie and ensure that justice is done--though he may ignore some of the legal niceties--in this fast-paced new mystery in the "consistently entertaining, well-crafted series" from the Edgar Award-nominated author (Booklist, starred review).
"A writer who gets everything right."--Cleveland Plain Dealer