The Other Woman

by Diana Diamond

Pam Leighton is a smart, ambitious, and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist named John Duke. For the last two years, she's also been his lover. It's an open secret that the insider's glamorous and social-climbing wife, Catherine, tolerates, to a point. After the president nominates Duke for a cabinet post, Catherine sees her opportunity and delivers an ultimatum --- either fire Pam or get ready for a very public, very ugly divorce --- and Duke's sharply honed political instincts tell him exactly what he needs to do. Pam doesn't stand a chance. In one abrupt, brutal meeting, Duke ends the relationship and fires her from the job she loves.

But Pam Leighton is not about to go quietly. A powerful New York publisher is offering big money for what could be the ultimate Washington tell-all. From the halls of Congress to ubiquitous smoke-filled rooms to the very highest form of political intrigue --- the kind that happens between the sheets --- Pam has experienced the capital at its most exhilarating, ruthless, and sordid. Now her book could put a lot of very prominent careers in peril, and could ruin some of the world's most powerful people.

Soon Pam comes to realize that for all her hard-earned political experience, there's one lesson she's missed. Some of those people can and will try to kill her before she spills their secrets.

Is it her ex-lover, afraid of what she'll reveal about him? Or is it his jealous wife, out for revenge? Maybe it's the editor who has signed her up to write the expose? Or could it possibly be the mysterious graduate student with whom she is falling in love?

Genres: Fiction

329 pages, Hardcover

First published June 13, 2006

Reviews

[Debbie Civitella]

Oct 2010

[Tomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It really kept me guessing, but the ending was a tad anticlimactic and too perfect.

[Kathie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book out of the discard bin at the Simpson Library. Pam Leighton's lover of 2 years leaves her because his wife has influence in high places and has an opportunity to be Secretary of Energy. She decides to write a Washington tell-all which involves many powerful people including her ex-lover. She hits road blocks in her attempt to get the book written and published. Her apartment gets tossed and her hard drive wiped out, her publisher backs out, she goes into seclusion and is found and hides again, someone who gives her additional information for her case against the Washington insiders is murdered, she gets thrown from a ferry into New York harbor and on the story goes. Her life is in danger and she goes into hiding only to be found again and again. Every chapter has suspense and questions on who is in cahoots with whom and who is the insider that makes it so easy for "them" to find her.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a fluffy read but a pretty good page turner. Super far fetched but I needed something different to read for a change.

Pam Leighton is the aide and mistress to Washington lobbyist. When he get's a job as Secretary of Energy he breaks off his relationship with Pam. She decides to write a book about the backroom politics.

While she's writing the book, attempts are made on her life. She then goes on the run. With the help of a couple close friends she tries to get the book published but is it worth her life?

A good mystery. I enjoyed Diana Diamond other book The Daughter In Law.

[Ferne (Enthusiastic Reader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was surprised to learn that Diana Diamond is not the author's real name but a pseudonym name of William P. Kennedy. I found this to be a real page-turner! Every time I thought I had it figured out...I'd turn another page and realize I was definitely on the wrong track. This is not the book to start before bedtime when you're tired...you'll stay up late and keep reading. :) Enjoy!! I'm off to find a title by William P. Kennedy.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really fun book to read. Once I got into it, I could not put it down. I couldn't wait to find out who was really trying to kill her and if they'd succeed in stopping the publication of her book. It is depressing to think so much corruption goes on in our government. It's disheartening to think that there are so many individuals motivated purely by greed.

[Austin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting book. I finished it solely because I wanted to know how the author was going to wrap up all of the loose ends. If I hadn't been so curious, I don't know that I would have finished!

[Jb62 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Agree that the plot was far fetched but it made for a good read. Didn't really care for the main character and couldn't really get into her mind to figure out what she really wanted. Overall enjoyed the book.

[Cynthia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not what I was expecting. It turned out to be a fairly good mystery and not the getting even plot that I expected.

[Mom]

Couldn't put this book down, would like to read some of her other books...the Step-mother, the First Wife, The Trophy Wife, The Daughter-in-law, The Babysitter and The Good Sister.

[Jennifer Lynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Has potential

[Katie Millan · Rating 1 out of 5]

far fetched, and the characters were unbelievable.

[Verna LaBounty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pam Leighton sets out to write a tell all book about payola in government after her lover is appointed to the Secretary of Energy. Influential forces try to stop her sending into hiding.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

once you start this you won't want to put it down.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't finish book