House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller by Mike Lawson from Atlantic Monthly Press ($0.99) is the
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In Michael Lawson's fast-paced thriller, House Rules, congressional snoop Joe DeMarco investigates a trio of failed terror attacks in Washington, D.C. When he begins to suspect that attacks are homegrown--and related to an anti-Islamic bill moving with suspicious quickness through Congress--the charming hero starts to unravel an utterly intricate plot in the making.
Mike Lawson’s Joe DeMarco thrillers have drawn praise for their fine-tuned suspense, off-kilter characters, intricate plots, and revealing portrait of Washington, DC behind closed doors. In House Rules, a terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is narrowly avoided. Then a private plane headed straight for the White House ignores warnings and is shot down. An atmosphere of fear and panic overruns the country, and when the junior senator from Virginia proposes to deport all noncitizen Muslims and run extensive background checks on all Muslim Americans, his bill gains surprising traction.
Speaker of the House John Mahoney is not pleased. He knows it is the kind of knee-jerk response people will come to regret, like Japanese internment camps, and he needs to find a way to kill the bill before it exposes a secret he wants to keep. So Mahoney calls his man DeMarco. An average guy who struggles with debt, divorce, and an unreasonable boss, DeMarco is an unlikely hero, in over his head, relying on old friends as he attempts to get to the bottom of the attacks in this riveting read, full of suspense, fascinating characters, humor, and timely political intrigue.
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