A Washington fixer takes on a simple babysitting job for a powerful politicianthat soon escalates into embezzlement and murder: ';Excellent.'Publishers Weekly (starred review) Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, who's now her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal with his new ward, but she's unavailableso he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl's okay. DeMarco's job is only to put things into a holding pattern until Mrs. Mahoney is able to step inbut DeMarco unintentionally flips over a rock and out from under it crawls a lawyer, the one managing Cassie's vast estate. DeMarco learns the lawyer has been embezzlingand may have killed Cassie's parents. What should have been a simple assignment soon unleashes murderous plots involving a Boston mob boss and his thugs, and DeMarco ends up chasing the scheming lawyer halfway around the world to save Cassie and ensure that justice is donethough he may ignore some of the legal nicetiesin this fast-paced new mystery in the ';consistently entertaining, well-crafted series' from the Edgar Award-nominated author (Booklist, starred review). ';A writer who gets everything right.'Cleveland Plain Dealer
| ISBN: | 9780802148490 |
| Publication date: | 7th July 2020 |
| Author: | Lawson, Mike |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook |
A Washington fixer takes on a simple babysitting job for a powerful politicianthat soon escalates into embezzlement and murder: ';Excellent.'Publishers Weekly (starred review) Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, who's now her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal with his new ward, but she's unavailableso he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl's okay. DeMarco's job is only to put things into a holding pattern until Mrs. Mahoney is able to step inbut DeMarco unintentionally flips over a rock and out from under it crawls a lawyer, the one managing Cassie's vast estate. DeMarco learns the lawyer has been embezzlingand may have killed Cassie's parents. What should have been a simple assignment soon unleashes murderous plots involving a Boston mob boss and his thugs, and DeMarco ends up chasing the scheming lawyer halfway around the world to save Cassie and ensure that justice is donethough he may ignore some of the legal nicetiesin this fast-paced new mystery in the ';consistently entertaining, well-crafted series' from the Edgar Award-nominated author (Booklist, starred review). ';A writer who gets everything right.'Cleveland Plain Dealer
House Privilege features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Political / Legal Thrillers
House Privilege is available in Ebook
House Privilege was written by Lawson, Mike and published by Grove Atlantic
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