Ergebnis für "Rick" in Politik

RICHARD BREWSTER IS A FAST RISING WASHINGTON LOBBYIST in a large law firm with a bright future. But what if he wants to short-circuit the long climb to the top of the profession by creating a made-up client that has a phony problem? What if he uses that client to embarrass the president, to pass irrelevant legislation and arrange Congressional show hearings with professional wrestlers as witnesses?

At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.

While on a mission in Jarablus, Syria, Jon Jericho, codename the Hunter, is severely wounded, ending his career as a Special Field Operative for Delta Force. When he returns stateside to begin life anew, he quickly finds himself caught up in a scandal involving the appropriation of documents for an undetectable state-of-the-art ICBM by the Islamic State. But what if Jon Jericho discovers something different?

During military exercises, rogue missiles fire off from a US naval battleship and head directly towards North Korea. Then Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains. These are mere flexes of muscle from one man who wields the Black Key, a tool capable of controlling nuclear arsenals and weaponry systems. President Jack Meacham's past comes back to haunt him with a single message: "Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the good of the whole?" The president turns to Jon Jericho, a.k.a. The Hunter, to locate and neutralize the man behind the Black Key.

Cuando el agente del FBI, Richard Clark, se involucra en la persecución del líder de un grupo terrorista que se hace llamar ARC, Anarquistas por un Cambio Real, se encuentra en un camino desconcertante donde «nada es lo que parece ser». Mientras intenta lidiar con sus propios demonios, lucha por encontrar un motivo que conecte todos los crímenes brutales del ARC. A medida que se adentra más en el misterio del ARC, descubre una verdad aterradora.

Howard Fast has placed the entire action of this highly charged novel in the space of one day at the substantial home of a prominent United States senator. This dinner party sounds like a well-ordered and gracious affair, but as events unfold, there are things to be settled - some are political and ethical, some are emotional, and some are questions of life and death. This is a profound and important novel with the dramatic intensity of first-class theater.