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POLITICAL THRILLERS pulse-pounding D. C. Beltway suspense
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by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Sixteen years after Virginia governor Bruce Jansen's first wife, Caroll, was stabbed to death during a very public moment on a visit to China, his successful run for the presidency comes to the worst possible climax when his second wife, Mimi Todd Jansen, is gunned down, perhaps in his stead, on election night.
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by Barbara D'Amato
After 9/11, when they escape the fate of their officemates by stopping for morning coffee, high-tech wizards Brenda Grant and Daniel Henderson open AllTech, a software company specializing in security and global antiterrorist procedures.
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by Anonymous (Joe Klein)
When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state, he watches in horror, admiration, and amazement, as the governor mixes calculation and sincerity in his not-so-above-board campaign for the presidency.
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by David Baldacci
In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in all he holds dear.
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by Alex Berenson
Uncovering a plot to lure America into invading Iran, John Wells and his CIA contacts race against time to prevent full-scale war in the face of a deadly terrorist attack and a squad of suicide bombers. .
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by William Bernhardt
Serving in the White House Special Counsel office when a foreign dictator infiltrates the U.S.'s ballistic missile computer system, Ben Kincaid races against time to prevent a nuclear crisis while the vice president calls the president's sanity into question.
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by Bill Clinton with James Patterson
The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?
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by Ben Coes
A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way--and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets.
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by Stephen Coonts
Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini race to solve the mystery of a potentially rigged election before Americans' full faith and credit in our democracy, sovereignty, and rule of law become completely undone.
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by Leonard Downie
No one knows more about Washington, its inner workings and secrets than Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post editor. And no novel has better captured the tensions among business interests, politicians, and the press, or the morally ambiguous ways in which all three really work.
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by James Ellroy
Offers a story of the dark secrets behind Kennedy's election and assassination, the Bay of Pigs, and the roles of the underworld, the CIA, Howard Hughes, Hoover, and three renegade law-enforcement officers
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by Mark Greaney
Taking a contract to abduct the mistress of a Syrian dictator to obtain any information she may possess, Court Gentry learns that the woman has given birth to the dictator's only son and that in order to secure her cooperation, he must retrieve the child safely out of Syria. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray.
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by James Grippando
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next.
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by Brian Haig
With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, military lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high stakes countdown of his career.
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by Chris Hauty
Recently elected President Richard Monroe -- populist, controversial, and divisive -- is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the paranoia so rampant.
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by Jack Higgins
A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise.
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by James W. Huston
The president rushes across the South Lawn through a pounding thunderstorm to Marine One to fly to Camp David late at night. He has arranged a meeting that only three people in his administration know about. After fighting its way through the brutal thunderstorm on the way to Camp David, Marine One crashes into a ravine in Maryland, killing all aboard.
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by Brad Meltzer
After an archivist goes against security protocol to show an ex-crush the president's private room at the National Archives, the two stumble upon a dictionary once owned by George Washington and are soon entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.
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by Joel C. Rosenberg
With Syrian tensions already high, the impending visit of the American president to the region could prove to be the spark that sets off an explosion of horrendous proportions.
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by Nicolle Wallace
When major attacks on U.S. soil occur during the filming of a day-in-the-life of the forty-fifth president, Charlotte Kramer, her Secretary of Defense and press secretary scramble to support the president, secure the nation's safety, and protect dangerous secrets.
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