Ballantine Books
January 2008
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Featuring: Ben Kincaid
432 pages ISBN: 0345470184 EAN: 9780345470188 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C.,
to defend a senator caught in a red-hot sex scandal turned
murder case, he never dreamed he’d end up trading the
courtroom for the senate chamber. And after his
not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself
appointed to complete the sullied senator’s term. Now,
having barely gotten his political sea legs, he must rise to
yet another challenge: advising the president’s next Supreme
Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation
process. Luckily, Judge Thaddeus Roush’s popularity on both
sides of the aisle looks to make him a shoo-in. Until he
decides to out himself on national television–igniting a
Beltway uproar and setting the stage for a bare-knuckle
partisan brawl.
Forced to scramble for spin control,
Ben hastily calls a press conference for the now
controversial candidate. But the photo op becomes a tabloid
nightmare when, on live TV, a brutally murdered woman is
discovered in the judge’s backyard. For the political forces
out to torpedo the nomination of a gay Supreme Court
Justice, the shocking turn of events is pure
gold.
With the secret backing of the president and a
made-to-order new candidate waiting in the wings, the cagey
senate majority leader and his most ruthless allies mount a
smear campaign that would put Joe McCarthy to shame. But
Team Kincaid isn’t about to let the best man for the job get
derailed.
While Ben uses his best courtroom
strategies to wage a war of words, his crack private eye,
Loving, hits the capital streets to fight a much more
hands-on battle–with hustlers, hit men, and homicidal
hoods–as he digs for dirt in places even Deep Throat would
avoid. It’s soon clear that this game is anything but
politics as usual.
In Capitol Threat, William
Bernhardt serves up a resounding one-two punch of political
intrigue and legal suspense peppered with a volley of his
trademark plot twists, sly wit, and persistent
thrills.
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