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Capitol Secrets
Laura Christen is the golden girl of politics--a tall blonde Congresswoman who's just made a boldly ambitious bid to become Speaker of the House. Now the media's glaring spotlight is on--and searching for Laura's secrets and scandals.
Anyone who knows DC knows about Laura's fabulously rich background ...and about her sexy young daughter's legendary love life. But only one journalist has the real dirt, the story that would rock Washington's elite and shock the nation...
And he's just been murdered.
Anyone who knows DC knows about Laura's fabulously rich background ...and about her sexy young daughter's legendary love life. But only one journalist has the real dirt, the story that would rock Washington's elite and shock the nation...
And he's just been murdered.
381 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1992
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August 7, 2015
Not bad...short chapters..kept the characters alive...
Not face paced...so for a long day indoors with no choice left.
Not face paced...so for a long day indoors with no choice left.
April 8, 2023
Lusty, dangerous and intoxicating.
I have to admit I picked up this book because I’d been watching a documentary on John Dean, Maureen Dean’s husband, and found out she was an author. I wanted to know more about what she’d written, so I looked her up at the library. This is one of the three books I found. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I started reading it. Could be good. Could be bad. But why not try it?
Man, oh, man. I was blown away. This is a tawdry, intoxicating thriller of a story. It’s evident that the author moved and shook in the circles written about in this book because it hits rather closet to the bone. I have to mention this is a political thriller, but it’s not so much focused around politics and picking a side. It’s about a woman trying to be speaker, the powers that be trying to keep her from it, her past getting in the way and a whole lot more. Politics are really a sidebar.
Laura Christen wants to be speaker, but she’s made some interesting deals in the past and has some skeletons in her closet. What politician doesn’t? I liked the intrigue and thriller aspect of this story. There are tawdry bits, but I expected that and it only enhanced the story. There’s a lot of bargaining, wheeling and dealing and subterfuge in this world and the author really showed that.
This was an unexpected story that I loved. I will be reading more by this author. I suggest you do, too. Discover this hidden thriller gem.
Recommended.
I have to admit I picked up this book because I’d been watching a documentary on John Dean, Maureen Dean’s husband, and found out she was an author. I wanted to know more about what she’d written, so I looked her up at the library. This is one of the three books I found. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I started reading it. Could be good. Could be bad. But why not try it?
Man, oh, man. I was blown away. This is a tawdry, intoxicating thriller of a story. It’s evident that the author moved and shook in the circles written about in this book because it hits rather closet to the bone. I have to mention this is a political thriller, but it’s not so much focused around politics and picking a side. It’s about a woman trying to be speaker, the powers that be trying to keep her from it, her past getting in the way and a whole lot more. Politics are really a sidebar.
Laura Christen wants to be speaker, but she’s made some interesting deals in the past and has some skeletons in her closet. What politician doesn’t? I liked the intrigue and thriller aspect of this story. There are tawdry bits, but I expected that and it only enhanced the story. There’s a lot of bargaining, wheeling and dealing and subterfuge in this world and the author really showed that.
This was an unexpected story that I loved. I will be reading more by this author. I suggest you do, too. Discover this hidden thriller gem.
Recommended.
September 6, 2016
Laura Christen is ambitious, beautiful and has her eyes on the prize, she is a congresswoman and is set fair to be the next speaker of the house.
But things are not always as easy as they seem and the result is no as cut and dried as she fears, with opposition from every corner, murder, slander, drugs, sex and scandals from her distant past rearing its ugly head she doesn't know who to trust and who is trying to smear her campaign, with the help of Jake Alban and two intrepid, dogged detectives, Murphy and his partner Margaret Stafford are trying not just to see she wins the post but to keep her alive!
A taut thriller with great characters, likeable "good guys" and truly evil villains this is a political thriller to be reckoned with all offset by an engaging storyline.
The first novel I have read by this author but I will definitely be reading more as I have just bought another two.
But things are not always as easy as they seem and the result is no as cut and dried as she fears, with opposition from every corner, murder, slander, drugs, sex and scandals from her distant past rearing its ugly head she doesn't know who to trust and who is trying to smear her campaign, with the help of Jake Alban and two intrepid, dogged detectives, Murphy and his partner Margaret Stafford are trying not just to see she wins the post but to keep her alive!
A taut thriller with great characters, likeable "good guys" and truly evil villains this is a political thriller to be reckoned with all offset by an engaging storyline.
The first novel I have read by this author but I will definitely be reading more as I have just bought another two.
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