Senatorial Privilege
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Publisher Description
"Gorman's writing is strong, fast, and sleek as a bullet. He's one of the best." —Dean Koontz
Senator David Cummings is a revered senior statesman who has sent many blessings back to his home state. District Attorney Amy McGuire owes her career in large part to Cummings's patronage. But when a teenage girl is brutally murdered and suspicion falls upon Amy's irresponsible younger brother, Richie, the senator has his own reasons for seeing that Richie is convicted of the crime. Amy finds her loyalties torn, and her career in jeopardy, as she struggles to get to the bottom of the crime. She thought she knew all the people in her life, but now she can trust only her instincts.
“Gorman has a wonderful writing style that allows him to say things of substance in an entertaining way.” —San Francisco Examiner
“One of the best of today's crime writers.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Lyndon Johnson reportedly said that "the two worst things that can happen to a politician are to wake up with a live boy or a dead girl." When the latter happens to David Cummings, a much-loved, cancer-stricken U.S. senator from Iowa, it sets off a chain of events and a clumsy thriller that boasts only a few moments of interest and excitement. Cummings's dark secret is his sexual attraction to underage girls, a bad habit that his chief aide--his smarter, tougher twin sister, Helen--has managed to hush up. But 15-year-old Darcy Fuller's death, after a fall from the senator's bed, threatens to end not only his career but Helen's, too: she plans on inheriting his seat after he dies. Conveniently, rich ne'er-do-well Richie McGuire has also been involved with Darcy, and the frequently drunk-and-disorderly young man makes the perfect fall guy. Inconveniently, Richie's protective big sister is the DA in the city of Crystal Falls. There's the germ of an original idea here--tough sisters fighting to defend weak brothers--but it's soon undermined by Gorman's graceless, jerky prose and grindingly predictable plotting.
