**Washington, DC, fixer Joe DeMarco is on a mission of revenge in a thriller that's** **"fast, assured and as refreshingly unsentimental as Joe himself" (*Kirkus Reviews*).** Joe DeMarco always knew that his father, Gino, had worked for a local New York mafioso. But it was only after Gino was
House Reckoning: A Thriller
β Scribed by Lawson, Mike
- Book ID
- 108297705
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 242 KB
- Series
- Joe DeMarco 9
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802122537
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β¦ Synopsis
The ninth installment in Mike Lawsonβs Washington, D.C. political thriller series launches readers back into Joe DeMarcoβs pastto the murder of his father, which was never investigated, let alone solved.
DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didnβt understand that Gino had been a hitman until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Ginoβs former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something off his chest before retiring to his grave: the truth about Ginoβs killer. The shocking information, and the powerful position the killer now occupies, sends DeMarco on a mission of revenge with terrible consequences. And after the secret being kept for so long, DeMarco has to rush to do something about it: the killer is on the brink of taking a job in Washington, D.C. that will leave him untouchable.
With his job, his morals, and his very life on the line, DeMarco must ask himself: How far will he go for revenge?
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