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| Author: Stephen L. Carter |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 0307266583
ISBN-13: 9780307266583
Buy.com Sku: 206730282
Publish Date: 7/8/2008
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512
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| USA Today called Stephen L. Carter’s last novel “the perfect summer read . . . Carter slips in so many original, thought-provoking observations that the reader is sad the killer has been caught.” Now Carter, the best-selling author of New England White, is back with Palace Council, a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam. Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He’s the last person you’d expect to fall prey to a murderer, but when his body is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, the young writer Eddie Wesley, along with the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twenty-year search for the truth. The disappearance of Eddie’s sister June makes their investigation even more troubling. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics all the way to the Oval Office and President Nixon himself. Suspenseful, provocative, and witty, Palace Council turns our assumptions inside out and reminds us how the struggles of that era set the stage for America today. |
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Young writer Eddie Wesley and his lover, Aurelia Treene, investigate the murder of Philmont Castle, a wealthy, highly respected man whose body turns up on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, embarking on a twenty-year quest for the truth that takes them from wealthy New York drawing rooms, through the dark corners of radical politics, to Nixon's Oval Office. By the author of |
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Stephen Carter follows up 2007's bestselling NEW ENGLAND WHITE with a long, ambitious, racially-charged political thriller that imagines a vast conspiracy orchestrated by a secret society called the Palace Council. When, in 1954, recent Amherst graduate Eddie Wesley discovers the murdered body of a prominent black lawyer, and shortly later his sister Junie goes missing, he finds himself caught up in a mystery that will span decades, and will envelop not only his own life but the fate of the country itself. Vietnam, Watergate, JFK, Nixon, and Langston Hughes all play a role in Carter's wonderfully paranoid vision of radical politics and shadowy cabals. Readers will be riveted as they follow Eddie through the twists and turns of the sinister plot, and through 20 years of American history.
Stephen Carter follows up 2007's bestselling NEW ENGLAND WHITE with a long, ambitious, racially-charged political thriller that imagines a vast conspiracy orchestrated by a secret society called the Palace Council. When, in 1954, recent Amherst graduate Eddie Wesley discovers the murdered body of a prominent black lawyer, and shortly later his sister Junie goes missing, he finds himself caught up in a mystery that will span decades, and will envelop not only his own life but the fate of the country itself. Vietnam, Watergate, JFK, Nixon, and Langston Hughes all play a role in Carter's wonderfully paranoid vision of radical politics and shadowy cabals. Readers will be riveted as they follow Eddie through the twists and turns of the sinister plot, and through 20 years of American history.
"Carter keeps the pot boiling energetically, and surprises leap out until this very long (but never dull) novel's penultimate page....The so-called masters of the genre could learn something from Carter's intoxicating blend of political street smarts and literary skill. This is Grade-A entertainment." (starred review)
06/01/2008
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