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Election Fiction

10/12/2020

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When truth is stranger than fiction, a little old-fashioned murder and mayhem offers respite. Crime Writers of Color led me to FIB agent Jade Harrington (Don’t Speak, below) a few months back. Other novels of presidential elections may ease the weeks ahead.
  • T. D. Patterson, The Vote (2004). Following a tie in the Electoral College, a congressman must protect his family from people who will stop at nothing to secure his vote.
  • Vince Flynn, Act of Treason (2006). After a bomb explodes in the motorcade of a candidate for president, CIA agents follow the trail abroad and back to the corridors of Washington.
  • Barbara D’Amato, Foolproof (2009). In an international search for terrorists, two 9/11 survivors uncover a plot to hijack a U.S. presidential election.
  • Leon Uris, A God in Ruins (2009). On the eve of the presidential election, a buried secret threatens to destroy the challenger’s ambitions and tear the country apart.
  • J. L. Brown, Don’t Speak (2016). An FBI agent must untangle the web connecting a conservative talk-show host, a woman candidate for president, and an unidentified killer.
  • Alan Russell, Political Suicide: A Thriller (2019). A PI foils the attempted murder of a young woman who suspects her would-be killers are acting on behalf of a presidential candidate.
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Connie Gill
10/12/2020 08:54:42 am

Thank you Sarah! I'll add these titles to my list.

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Sarah Cook link
10/12/2020 07:13:56 pm

Please let me know if you recommend any of them! Other than Don’t Speak, I haven’t read them but was intrigued by the descriptions.

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Corrine
10/12/2020 10:16:07 am

Don’t Speak was very nearly clairvoyant in its timing. I devoured it when it first came out. There is another in the Jade Harrington series. Not sure if there are more after that.

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Sarah Cook link
10/12/2020 07:18:54 pm

Thanks for the tip, Corrine. I should get hold of the other Jade Harrington book(s) for some more good reading. So many books, so little time! (grin)

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Rebecca link
10/16/2020 11:14:06 am

Any distraction is very welcome. Thanks for these reading suggestions.

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Sarah Cook link
10/17/2020 06:07:04 am

Happy reading! This year feels so crazy, plain old (fictional) terror and suspense is positively calming!

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