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Deadly Ambition
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781463785413
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 28 2011
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Killing a president is easy. Getting away with it is the hard part.
President Tim Connors is fading fast in the polls, and Chief of Staff Arthur Locke has run out of patience. He blames the First Lady - the sharp-tongued, outspoken Congresswoman Rachel Connors - for tanking her husband's approval ratings. Locke's solution is as ruthless as it is simple: what if the President were a grieving widower instead?
When his plot to assassinate Rachel spirals out of control, Locke sets off a chain of events that could hand him the presidency itself - if he can survive long enough to claim it.
Washington, D.C. has never looked more dangerous:
- A Vice President whose taste for underage girls could end his career overnight
- A DNC chairman who doesn't care who wins, as long as the party keeps power
- An Assistant Chief of Staff drowning in debt, for whom murder starts to look like a way out
- And the one person who might stop it all: Locke's own wife, Elaine, who discovers his plan and vows to end it - even if it means killing the man she once loved
As the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, and local police race to piece together the clues, one question drives every page: will anyone find the truth before Locke claims his next victim?
Fast-paced, twisted, and packed with characters who all have something to hide, Deadly Ambition pulls back the curtain on the ambition, corruption, and betrayal simmering just beneath the surface of Washington power.
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