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Removal

by Peter Murphy
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A compromised President, his murdered mistress, enemies foreign and domestic, and a rogue Marine Commander lusting for power: the impeachment is the least of America's problems... President Steve Wade believes his latest affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman, Lucia Benoni, is a secret. When Lucia is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI Agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate and uncovers links between Lucia, a hostile foreign power, a group of vicious white supremacists and a shadowy high-placed Washington figure known only as 'Fox'. As Wade continues to deny the affair, the press gets on the trail. Because of the national security implications, there are demands in Congress for Wade's impeachment but if this were to happen, the law provides that Vice President Ellen Trevathan should become President. 'Fox' and his associates have other plans, which do not include allowing the lawful succession to take place. As time runs out Kelly may hold the key to preventing a coup d'état and a possible civil war.

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  • Release date

    June 20, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781842436004

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781842436004
      • File size: 747 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 20, 2012
      David Baldacci fans will best appreciate Murphy's implausible first novel, a political thriller set in a post-Obama America. In the prologue, the attorney general briefs the country's military leaders on the secret Williamsburg Doctrine, adopted in 1965 to allow a military veto of succession to the presidency by a vice president hat the Joint Chiefs of Staff deem unreliable. Flashbacks make clear why the current president, Steve Wade, an unrepentant womanizer, is facing impeachment. Having lied to the public about his relationship with Lebanese national Lucia Benoni, Wade is between a rock and a hard place after Benoni is found shot in the back of the head, execution style, in a D.C. apartment. In her purse is a VIP pass to the White House. Uncovering what's really going on becomes the mission of the latest FBI agent in search of redemption, 30-year-old Kelly Smith, who reveals the usual high-level conspiracy familiar to readers of this subgenre.

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