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Title details for The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson - Available

The Inside Ring

A Novel

#1 in series

by Mike Lawson
Scott Brick
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From a bluff overlooking Georgia’s untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man’s home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.
General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is nursing a guilty conscience. Only days before the assassination attempt on the President, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: “Eagle One is in danger. Cancel Chattooga River. The inside ring has been compromised. This is not a joke.” The message—on Secret Service stationery—was signed “An agent in the wrong place.” Banks immediately passed the note on to Secret Service Director Patrick Donnelly, who proceeded to ignore it.
Even after the assassin is found dead, Banks is determined to dig a little deeper. He turns to Speaker of the House John Fitzgerald Mahoney. The Speaker has a guy—an under-the-radar, go-to guy he uses for things like this—things he can’t afford to have connected to his office. The guy is Joe DeMarco, an honest lawyer with a sordid family history.
After one meeting with Banks, DeMarco realizes he’s in way over his head. But Mahoney finds the prospect of taking down Donnelly irresistible and sets DeMarco on a trail that twists through the Secret Service, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security and snakes all the way back to one of the more enduring mysteries of the twentieth century.
Brimming with suspense, authenticity, and wit, The Inside Ring marks the debut of a major new talent and introduces a cast of intriguing characters with many more cases ahead.

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  • Series

    Joe DeMarco

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  • Release date

    May 24, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415950722
      • File size: 293680 KB
      • Duration: 10:11:49

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An assassination attempt on the president is solved too neatly for the secretary of homeland security. He asks for the help of Joe DeMarco, special counsel to Congress, and when DeMarco begins to investigate, things get more and more sordid. Scott Brick combines a great variety of voices with a tempo that matches the action and excitement of the story and projects the wit and sarcasm perfectly. Fasten your seatbelts as the nonstop tension races to a hair-raising, if over-the-top, ending, with Brick grabbing you from the first word and not letting go until the gruesome end. S.S.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 21, 2005
      The Washington conspiracy thriller is a publishing evergreen, and while Lawson's debut may look like others in the genre, it's in a league by itself. Joe DeMarco has a Capitol building office and the title of "Counsel Pro Tem for Liaison Affairs," but he's really an all-purpose legman for John Fitzpatrick Mahoney, Speaker of the House. In DeMarco's words: "If a politician thinks his wife is cheating on him, I make sure she's not screwing a journalist. That's the kind of stuff I do, sir. Little stuff." But he's pushed into a much bigger game after Mahoney lends him to the director of homeland security, who wants DeMarco to investigate a recent assassination attempt on the president. Of particular interest to the director is Secret Service agent Billy Ray Mattis, who predicted the assassination attempt. All the stock government types are here, but Lawson's craft, intelligence and humor turn these ho-hum regulars into characters worth savoring. DeMarco himself is perfectly human, prey to all the species' frailties and tremendously appealing. The bad guys are sufficiently evil, the plot properly labyrinthine, the solution to the mystery completely satisfying. This is high-level entertainment from a writer who could soon rise to the top of the thriller heap. Agent, David Gernert
      . Foreign rights to Germany, Holland, Israel, Poland and the U.K.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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