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No Safe
Place
by Richard North Patterson
- Book Description
In his first book since the national best-seller Silent
Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of
characterization and suspense to give us a story of
startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel
of presidential politics.
In the
year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign
against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the
last seven days--the time remaining until the California
presidential primary. Whoever wins in California is
likely to win the Democratic nomination, a prize that the
Vice President is determined to deny Kerry at any cost.
And for all the votes and enthusiasm his passion and
personal magnetism have gained him, Kerry's problems are
formidable.
He is
haunted by the tragedy of his older brother, James, a
presidential candidate who was assassinated in California
twelve years earlier. Kerry has stumbled in his advocacy
of abortion rights, and a right-to-life fanatic has
pushed this explosive issue to the forefront by murdering
three people at a women's clinic. In addition, a
journalist for a national newsmagazine is striving to
verify the lethal story that, two years ago, while still
married, Kerry had a secret love affair with Lara
Costello, a reporter assigned to him on Capitol Hill. And
now, even more threatening, Kerry is being stalked by the
abortion-clinic murderer himself.
This
narrative is seamlessly interwoven with scenes from
Kerry's past: his youth as the son of a drunken and
abusive father; his self-image as the less-gifted younger
brother of a brilliant yet distant senator; his reluctant
ascension to his brother's place; his poignant romance
with Lara Costello. And when Lara is ordered against her
will to cover Kerry in California, he is forced once more
to evaluate his life, and the terrible cost of his
ambition to become President of the United States.
With rare
authenticity, Richard North Patterson depicts the world
of high-stakes presidential politics on the verge of an
explosion that is as dramatic as it is thought-provoking.
But No Safe Place is also a story of people at
their best and at their worst: their passions, their
ideals, their flaws. A novel that will hold the reader
enthralled from the first to the last sentence.
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