Power Blind
A Graham Gage Thriller
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4.6 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“[Gore] knows how to hook his readers from the opening line.”
—Richard North Patterson
Graham Gage is back! The private investigator with an unfailing moral compass—whom Cornelia Read, author of The Crazy School, calls a “James Bond for grown-ups”—returns in Power Blind, another high-stakes political thriller from Steven Gore. The murder of a “fixer” for the wealthy and corrupt puts Gage on the trail of a conspiracy that threatens American democracy, an all-too-real nightmare deep-rooted in the heart of the federal government. Aside from superior writing, what sets this page-turning adventurer from the author of Final Target, Absolute Risk, and Act of Deceit apart from other edge-of-the-seat thrillers is the intelligence and astonishing authenticity author Gore—himself a former private investigator trained in forensic science—adds to the story. If you are blind to the corrupt inner workings of those in power in Washington, D.C., Power Blind will open your eyes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There's little to distinguish Gore's third Gage present-day political suspense novel (after 2010's Absolute Risk) from a slew of similar David Baldacci-like books, and the plotting is a step below his previous outing. Gage, a San Francisco based PI, gets mixed up in what turns out to be the umpteenth conspiracy to influence the direction of the country by naming Supreme Court justices that would bear the imprint of the president. Republican William Duncan views his tenure in office as a failure, but hopes to rectify that by nominating two men who would enable the Court to control "the country for a hundred years after was dead." His agenda may or may not coincide with the ambitions of California Senator Landon Meyer, who hopes to succeed Duncan in office, and doesn't scruple at deceiving him to do so. The writing is often clunky ("For confession would require Palmer to admit to himself who he was and what he'd been: a weapon in the hands of the wealthy and powerful employed to revictimize their victims, slashing through the fabric of their lives...") The thin characters many will find engaging with Gage a challenge are an additional minus.
