Capitol threat / a novel by William Bernhardt.
When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he d end up trading the courtroom for the senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself appointed to complete the sullied senator s term. Now, having barely gotten his political sea legs, he must rise to yet another challenge: advising the president s next Supreme Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation process. Luckily, Judge Thaddeus Roush s popularity on both sides of the aisle looks to make him a shoo-in. Until he decides to out himself on national televisionigniting a Beltway uproar and setting the stage for a bare-knuckle partisan brawl. Forced to scramble for spin control, Ben hastily calls a press conference for the now controversial candidate. But the photo op becomes a tabloid nightmare when, on live TV, a brutally murdered woman is discovered in the judge s backyard. For the political forces out to torpedo the nomination of a gay Supreme Court Justice, the shocking turn of events is pure gold. With the secret backing of the president and a made-to-order new candidate waiting in the wings, the cagey senate majority leader and his most ruthless allies mount a smear campaign that would put Joe McCarthy to shame. But Team Kincaid isn t about to let the best man for the job get derailed. While Ben uses his best courtroom strategies to wage a war of words, his crack private eye, Loving, hits the capital streets to fight a much more hands-on battlewith hustlers, hit men, and homicidal hoodsas he digs for dirt in places even Deep Throat would avoid. It s soon clear that this game is anything but politics as usual. In Capitol Threat, William Bernhardt serves up a resounding one-two punch of political intrigue and legal suspense peppered with a volley of his trademark plot twists, sly wit, and persistent thrills.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345470171
- ISBN: 0345470176
- ISBN: 9780345470188
- ISBN: 0345470184
- Physical Description: 385 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
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