Durch den kaltblΓΌtigen Mord an seiner Ehefrau und dem ungeborenen Kind gerΓ€t der neu gewΓ€hlte amerikanische PrΓ€sident Bruce Jansen vΓΆllig aus dem Gleichgewicht. Er erlΓ€sst das "Washington Dekret" ; eine politische Entscheidung, die schwerwiegende Folgen nach sich zieht fΓΌr die gesamte amerikanische
The Washington Decree
β Scribed by Jussi Adler-Olsen; Steve Schein
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 365 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos.
"The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about."
Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared experience and devotion to their candidate.
For Doggie, who worked the campaign trail with Wesley, Jansen's election is a personal victory: a job in the White House, proof to her Republican father that she was right to support Jansen, and...
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