Mike Lawson, Author . Atlantic Monthly $22 (373p) ISBN 978-0-87113-983-2
At the start of Lawson's snappy third thriller starring congressional snoop Joe DeMarco (after The Second Perimeter
), a series of three failed attempts by Muslim terrorists to attack Washington, D.C.—one by plane, one by car, one by lone
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Mike Lawson, Author . Atlantic Monthly $22 (371p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1885-1
In Lawson's excellent fourth Washington thriller to feature Joe DeMarco (after House Rules
), the government investigator looks into the drowning death of a Washington Post
reporter working a story involving Paul Morelli, a charismatic U.S....
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Mike Lawson, Atlantic Monthly, $22 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1937-7
After the head of the CIA, Jake LaFountaine, gives a secret briefing to a group of congressional leaders in Lawson’s engaging fifth thriller featuring fix-it man Joe DeMarco (after House Secrets), someone leaks the information to the press. This...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1978-0
In Lawson's excellent sixth Joe DeMarco thriller (after House Justice), DeMarco, the fix-it man for womanizing, alcoholic John Mahoney, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, discovers he can get into serious trouble all on his own...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1994-0
In Lawson’s enjoyable seventh thriller starring congressional fix-it man Joe DeMarco (after 2011’s House Divided), DeMarco looks into a lobbyist’s suspicious murder conviction. Demarco quickly figures out the lobbyist was framed to cover the...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1995-7
House minority leader John Fitzpatrick Mahoney, a Massachusetts Democrat who longs to regain the speaker’s gavel, turns to Joe DeMarco for help with a personal matter, in Lawson’s outstanding eighth thriller featuring the Congressional fixer (after...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2253-7
In Lawson’s enjoyable ninth Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2013’s House Odds), the Congressional fix-it man steps out of the Washington, D.C., political mud to focus on a personal quest: tracking down the man who murdered his father decades ago....
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2360-2
In the prologue of Lawson’s workmanlike 10th Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2014’s House Reckoning), three men assault Sarah Johnson, a muckraking blogger who’s trying to expose corruption in Montana and North and South Dakota, late one night behind a...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2523-1
Originality, intelligence, and humor lift Lawson’s excellent 11th Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2015’s House Rivals). House Minority Leader John Mahoney, formerly the Speaker of the House, is meeting with constituents in his Boston office. Feisty...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2666-5
At the start of Lawson’s winning 12th Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2016’s House Revenge), John Mahoney, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, learns that his son has been killed. Still worse, his wife, Mary Pat, doesn’t know he had one.
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2930-7
Late one Friday night, at the start of Lawson’s terrific 11th Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2018’s House Witness), a trained killer in a cop uniform slips into the Capitol and shoots House majority whip Lyle Canton dead at his desk. Joe, a staffer who
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Mike Lawson, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-51531-3
The Washington conspiracy thriller is a publishing evergreen, and while Lawson's debut may look like others in the genre, it's in a league by itself. Joe DeMarco has a Capitol building office and the title of "Counsel Pro Tem for Liaison
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Mike Lawson, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-385-51532-0
The second outing for political troubleshooter Joe DeMarco, who's employed by House Speaker John Mahoney, proves that Lawson's fine debut, The Inside Ring
(2005), was no fluke. Soon after DeMarco's arrival at the U.S. naval base in...
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Mike Lawson, Author, Richard Poe, Read by , read by Richard Poe. Random House Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2002-0
Joe DeMarco returns for a second adventure after last year's excellent debut, The Inside Ring
. This time out DeMarco, an unofficial operative for the Speaker of the House, is asked to casually look into a security company that may be price...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6052-2
The murder of 23-year-old Andie Moore, a Department of Justice employee, propels Edgar finalist Lawson’s outstanding 16th thriller featuring Joe DeMarco, bagman and fixer for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Mahoney (after 2021’s...
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Mike Lawson. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6088-1
Political fixer Joe DeMarco faces familiar challenges in the brisk 17th entry in Lawson’s series (after Alligator Alley), which finds the operative once again dealing with murder and corruption in the nation’s capital. After Brian Lewis—an intern...
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