The good lie: a novel

✍ Scribed by Tom Rosenstiel

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: Washington (D.C.
• ISBN: 0062888293

✦ Synopsis

An intelligent and propulsive international political thriller in which political fixer Peter Rena is hired by the president to investigate the bombing of an American military base overseas
When a shadowy American diplomatic complex is attacked in North Africa, the White House is besieged by accusations of incompetence and wild conspiracy theories. Eager to learn the truth, the president and his staff turn to Peter Rena and his partner, Randi Brooks. The investigators dive headfirst into the furtive world of foreign intelligence and national security, hoping to do it quietly. That becomes impossible, though, when it blows up into an all-out public scandal: Congress opens hearings and a tireless national security reporter publishes a bombshell expose.

Now, Rena and Brooks are caught in the middle. The White House wants to prevent debilitating fallout for the president, the military appears to be in shutdown mode, the press is hungry for another...

✦ Subjects

Washington (D.C.)