| Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense Contributor(s): Bernhardt, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345451503 ISBN-13: 9780345451507 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Nationally bestselling author William Bernhardt is poised to reach his biggest audience yet-with his popular cursading attorney Ben Kincaid enteringthe nation's very corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Trial attorney Ben Kincaid's unpredictable career uproots him from his native soil in Oklahoma and takes him to the grand stated of Washington D.C., where the senior senator from his home state-and a former fellow law student- is accused of murder. A female intern, who appears to be a victim of a ritual killing is found dead in the tunnels leading from the senate. Though the senator proclaims his innocence, a videotape has sufaced of a former tryst with the |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Legal - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Ben Kincaid |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 4.22" W x 6.92" (0.59 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia |
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| Publisher Description: William Bernhardt's bestselling novels featuring Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid capture the bare-knuckles reality of high-stakes criminal defense, as lofty ideals of justice clash with power, corruption, and wealth. In Capitol Murder, Bernhardt's hard-charging hero takes on his most shocking, headline-making case yet. Kincaid's legal success has earned him a dubious reward: a journey through the looking glass into the Beltway. Here, in the heart of the nation's capital, a powerful U.S. senator has been caught first in a sordid sex scandal, then in a case of murder. Senate aide Veronica Cooper was found in a secret Senate office beneath the Capitol building, on Senator Todd Glancy's favorite couch, blood pouring from the knife wound in her throat. The young woman's death comes on the heels of the release of a sordid videotape depicting her and Senator Glancy in compromising positions. With the senator's reputation in tatters, the evidence against him-as a sexual predator and possibly a killer-mounts. By the time a nationally televised murder trial begins, Kincaid and his team know they're facing the challenge of a lifetime. According to public opinion, and even in Kincaid's most private thoughts, Glancy is one more politician who cannot admit his own culpability. But while a dramatic trial unfolds in the courtroom-loaded with pitfalls, traps, and an astounding betrayal-another trial is taking place on the mean streets of D.C., as Kincaid's investigator pursues a young woman who was a friend of Veronica Cooper's, plunging Kincaid into a bizarre world of Goths, sadomasochists, and a community of self-proclaimed vampires. Somewhere in this violent underworld lies the secret behind Veronica Cooper's demise . . . and the crux of Senator Glancy's innocence or guilt. In a case that pits Kincaid and his freewheeling partner Christina McCall against the brutal machinery of Washington politics, the answers they seek are hidden in a murderous maze of lies and hidden motives. And in William Bernhardt's best novel yet, getting to the truth is an unparalleled experience in pure, satisfying suspense. |