Executive Actions
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4.2 • 28 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
One bullet puts the plan in motion…"The best political thriller I have read in a long, long time―right up there with the very best of David Baldacci."—Michael Palmer, New York Times-bestselling author of Oath of Office
An assassin's bullet changes the course of the presidential election—not by killing Democratic candidate Teddy Lodge but by killing his wife. Riding a wave of popular sympathy, Lodge surges forward as the man to beat for incumbent President Morgan Taylor.
Meanwhile, Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke is ordered by President Taylor to investigate the assassination, which unravels a deadly Soviet plot that has incubated for decades. But it's not just the Russians that Agent Roarke must contend with. Another nation has a sleeper agent—poised to forever alter American policy in the Middle East…
"Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations…holds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion."—Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
TV producer Grossman's first thriller might well be subtitled "The Libyan Candidate." It starts with the assassination of apparently the wrong person the wife of Massachusetts Democratic congressman Teddy Lodge, who's running a distant second in the presidential primaries. Lodge and his handlers use the killing to stir up a media storm to win first the nomination and then the presidency itself. But several people loyal to the defeated Republican president especially Scott Roarke, a tough and resourceful agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency begin to have suspicions about Teddy Lodge. Is he really who he claims to be? And who is the mysterious Libyan who appears to be pulling his strings and who perhaps even arranged the assassination of Mrs. Lodge? Grossman has done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations; despite a certain stiffness in his narrative technique, he manages to hold reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion. , Grossman is also the co-owner of Weller/Grossman Productions, an L.A. production company, whose credits include more than 6,000 shows for the History Channel, A&E, NBC, ABC, CBS, the Sci-Fi Channel and other networks. Anyone for an option on a made-for-TV movie?
