**"The plot and pace are relentless" as Joe DeMarco investigates a pharmaceutical corporation that has gone beyond the bounds of science and into murder (*Booklist*, starred review). Author of *House Witness*, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel** Things have been better for Washingto
House Secrets: a Joe Demarco Thriller
β Scribed by Mike Lawson
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc
- Year
- 2009;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 514 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
**The mysterious death of a journalist pulls Washington fixer Joe DeMarco into a conspiracy of power and politics in "**one of the best thrillers of the year" (Booklist).
Days after claiming he had a lead on a story that would make Watergate look like a misdemeanor, a mediocre writer from the Washington Post is found accidentally drowned. But Joe DeMarco's bossβthe Speaker of the Houseβthinks there's nothing accidental about it. Mostly because the reporter was on the trail of Senator Paul Morelli.
Morelli is all but a shoe-in for the Democratic presidential nomination. But his golden boy public persona hides a monstrous character. Somehow, all of his sinister scandals seem to be cleaned up by a mysterious benefactor who stays just out of sight.
Setting up a sting to catch the predatory Morelli, DeMarco thinks his job is doneβuntil those who helped him with the sting start turning up dead. And...
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