When acting CIA Director Lt. General Sam Allen is found dead in a New York hotel room, Butch Karp is one of the first on the scene. Karp is the District Attorney for New York County. As the investigation unfolds, what first appears to be a suicide is actually a murder and seems to be tied to a terrorist attack and kidnapping of two Americans on a mission in Chechnya. There also appears to be a cover-up in the works by the President's chief security adviser and his campaign manager.
Karp believes that General Allen was being blackmailed to keep quiet about the government's involvement in the Chechnya debacle. Karp also has a personal interest in this case, as his daughter is one of hostages taken in the attack. When there is enough evidence to indict the security adviser and campaign manager, a dynamic courtroom battle ensues.
FATAL CONCEIT is a fast-paced, action-packed political thriller you will not want to put down. It has so many twists and turns you'll need a road map to keep up. There are a plethora of characters who are each given a voice to tell their side of the story. Robert Tanenbaum uses this unique perspective to unfold this engaging tale. It's a battle of good versus evil, a story about public perception, employing politics over ethics. A political liberal may not enjoy it as much as a far-right conservative, as Karp certainly goes by the book in following procedure. He believes in the system and battles many lies and fabrications as he presents irrefutable evidence in his case.
A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances before he
is about to testify about a controversial government
cover-
up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in
Chechnya. Butch Karp is on the case in this exciting
installment to Robert K. Tanenbaumβs bestselling series.
When the CIA director is murdered, Butch Karp finds
himself
battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The
national presidential election campaignβs foreign policy
mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run and
Bin
Laden is dead. There are rumors that the CIA chief was
going to deviate from the administration version of
events,
and that the government may have had something to do with
his death. Can Karp expose the cover-up and find the
Chechnyan separatists who aided the Americans at the
mission and who have firsthand knowledge of the terrorist
attack? Karp must also find his missing daughter, who has
been taken hostage by the terrorists.
After the New York grand jury indicts the national
presidential campaign chairman and the NSA spymaster for
the murder of the CIA chief, Karp engages in an
unforgettable courtroom confrontation with the defendants
who have the full weight of the US administration, a
hostile judge, and a compliant media supporting them.
These
sinister forces will stop at nothing to prevent Karp from
bringing out the truth, even if they have to resort to
murder.
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