General Information
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 Title:                  The Inside Ring
 Author:                 Michael Lawson
 Read By:                Scott Brick
 Copyright:              2005
 Audiobook Copyright:    2005
 Genre:                  Speech
 Publisher:              Books on Tape
 Series Name:            None
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  CD
 Number:                 9
 Length each:            1:10
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              New

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 Total Duration:         10:10:46
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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
The Washington conspiracy thriller is a publishing evergreen, and while 
Lawson's debut may look like others in the genre, it's in a league by 
itself. Joe DeMarco has a Capitol building office and the title of "Counsel 
Pro Tem for Liaison Affairs," but he's really an all-purpose legman 
for John Fitzpatrick Mahoney, Speaker of the House. In DeMarco's words: 
"If a politician thinks his wife is cheating on him, I make sure she's 
not screwing a journalist. That's the kind of stuff I do, sir. Little 
stuff." But he's pushed into a much bigger game after Mahoney lends 
him to the director of homeland security, who wants DeMarco to investigate 
a recent assassination attempt on the president. Of particular interest 
to the director is Secret Service agent Billy Ray Mattis, who predicted 
the assassination attempt. All the stock government types are here, 
but Lawson's craft, intelligence and humor turn these ho-hum regulars 
into characters worth savoring. DeMarco himself is perfectly human, 
prey to all the species' frailties and tremendously appealing. The bad 
guys are sufficiently evil, the plot properly labyrinthine, the solution 
to the mystery completely satisfying. This is high-level entertainment 
from a writer who could soon rise to the top of the thriller heap. Agent, 
David Gernert. Foreign rights to Germany, Holland, Israel, Poland and 
the U.K. (May) 
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From Booklist
This exciting, danger-filled novel begins with an attempt on the life 
of the U.S. president; he survives, but there are two other fatalities. 
Days before the assassination attempt, Andy Banks, secretary of Homeland 
Security, received a note threatening the president's life. He passed 
the note on to the Secret Service, whose director ignored it. Now, Banks 
is wracked with guilt over the note and his failure to make anyone pay 
attention to it. He turns to the Speaker of the House, who knows a guy 
who solves problems without going through the usual political channels. 
That guy is Joe DeMarco, a fix-it man who's never dealt with something 
of quite this magnitude. When the Speaker sets him loose on the Secret 
Service director, DeMarco soon discovers that the world of politics 
is a heck of a lot more complex than he had ever suspected. The author, 
who was an "independent contractor" for the U.S. Navy, seems to know 
what he's talking about; and clearly DeMarco is being positioned as 
a series lead. So far so good. David Pitt
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