Emergency Powers
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Publisher Description
The accidental president is no accident.
When the president dies in office, FBI Agent Imogen Trager knows that the conspiracy she chased down a blind alley still has life in it-and she needs to get back in the hunt. The old case may be the key to stopping a brutal, false flag terrorist attack meant to finalize the new puppet president's grip on power. Imogen doesn't know it yet, but she's running out of time.
As bodies pile up and leads go cold, the main target from that old case reaches out to her. He's still at large, and now he needs protection. Imogen doesn't trust him, and it's not only because he's offering intel that sounds too good to be true. He's already tried to kill her once.
Set variously in DC, Seattle and small-town America, Emergency Powers is a story of corruption and redemption, achieved at enormous personal cost, with a ripped-from-the-headlines urgency: a fractious FBI, an undermined Attorney General, powerful people using all manner of treachery to maintain their hold on power. But it's more than headlines about things people think they know. And darker.
"Tense action, dire motives, and dark secrets. McCrone has written a high-stakes political thriller that feels so chillingly true, you pray it's not." — TOM STRAW, Seven-time NYT bestselling author, as Richard Castle
"Disturbingly timely and prescient. Brilliantly executed and eerily plausible—a chess match of a political thriller – PEN & INK REVIEWS
FBI Agent Imogen Trager is "a memorable protagonist—as tough as she is smart." —KIRKUS REVIEW
"McCrone's research and political insight are an intriguing backdrop…and will be a pleasant surprise to readers used to more gunplay-style action.
Great for fans of Brad Meltzer, David Baldacci." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NEW! From the author of Faithless Elector and Dark Network.
Customer Reviews
Thrilling and suspense filled roller coaster
EMERGENCY POWERS is the third instalment in James McCrone’s contemporary, adult IMOGEN TRAGER political, suspense thriller series focusing on FBI Agent Imogen ‘Gen’ Trager and the investigation into the electoral process of the United States of America. EMERGENCY POWERS can be read as a stand alone but for back story, history and cohesion I recommend reading the series in order.
SOME BACKGROUND: Following the fictional 2016 US Presidential election wherein Diane Redmond is elected the first female president of the United States with an Electoral College difference of only four votes 271- 267, a series of anomalies including the ‘accidental’ deaths of seven electors sends up red flags that cannot be ignored, catching the attention of some powerful people including FBI Agent Imogen Trager, who begins an investigation of her own into the who, how and why.
Told from numerous third person perspectives EMERGENCY POWERS follows in the aftermath of the suspicious ‘death’ of American President Diane Redmond, and the quick turnaround of the people in charge. Something is wrong in Washington DC, and FBI Agent Imogen Trager, along with her team of agents and investigators, begin to piece together a conspiracy that implicates some of the most powerful men in and out of US politics.
From corruption and betrayal, secrets and lies, murder for hire, bio-terrorism and a puppet government EMERGENCY POWERS is a thought provoking story of what if-what if the all of the political power was controlled by the powerful elite, and with that control came the unquestionable influence over everyone in charge? When the legitimate power is controlled by the coercive power, everything and everyone is forced to follow the lead.
James McCrone pulls the reader into another thrilling and suspense filled roller coaster of political intrigue where the fine line between fiction and reality is blurred by the similarities of today’s current headlines.