Interesting story with many many layers. Government officials (& unofficials), Muslim extremists, terrorists, hired assassins, etc etc. It kept my interest and had some interesting twists. DeMarco is a government UNofficial. He works for the Speaker of the House but while he is on the gov't payro...
A very enjoyable read. Not my usual sort of book but I picked it up on an Amazon Daily Deal when I needed something out of the norm after reading one that had upset shall we say. Great characters, well drawn, lots of politics which I love anyway, a good story that kept me guessing and snappy di...
Mike Lawson leaps ahead of himself here, taking his series featuring Joe DeMarco to a higher level.DeMarco is one of us. He has talent, is devious, displays bravery at times, but is no classical hero. He can barely handle a gun, drinks, goes to baseball games when he should be 'working', worrie...
The Inside Ring
The evil bastard who’d written the editorial was urging Congress to raise the minimum retirement age for federal employees to sixty-five, spouting baseless nonsense as to how this would save the taxpayers big bucks. DeMarco concluded that if he were running things, the first thing to go would be ...
with a hangover so bad he thought he should be in an intensive care unit connected to life support. But, stalwart soldier that he was, he made a reservation for a flight leaving at ten for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.* * *DeMarco sat at the bar sipping iced tea through a straw, the straw being t...
He saw a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio where Leo somehow managed to invade people’s dreams and make them do whatever he wanted. The movie didn’t make a whole lot of sense to him, but he heard two women talking as he was leaving the theater, the women going on and on and on about Leo. DeMarco c...
“Tell Sean I want to see him this evening, have a drink over at the Copley about six or seven.” The next citizen was an old woman who was wearing her Sunday go-to-Mass clothes, including a feathered blue bonnet and white gloves. She brought a plate of chocolate chip cookie...
Two cups of coffee later, he decided he didn’t have a next move. He did conclude that one thing he needed to do was go talk to Mahoney. He didn’t think Mahoney would help him; in fact, he was almost certain Mahoney wouldn’t. Mahoney acted almost totally out of his own self-interest, and he would ...
“Where are you?” he asked. “I’m still in Minnesota. I’m—” “Well, you need to get out of bed and—” “I’m not in bed, goddamnit. I’m at the office and I’m . . .” “Somebody tried to kill Bill Logan last ni...