political fiction

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political fiction

The inner circle

2011
Benjamin January, a young archivist, is visited by Clementine Kaye, his childhood crush, and when the two stumble upon a two hundred-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington hidden in the president's secret vault, their curiosity puts them in a world of conspiracy, murder, and government secrets.

All the king's men

1990
Jack Burden, a young journalist, is asked by soon-to-be governor Willie Stark to uncover a scandal in Judge Irwin's past. Jack weighs the consequences.

All the king's men

2006
Willie Stark, a well-intentioned idealistic back-country lawyer, is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.

A case of exploding mangoes

2008
Air Force Junior Under Officer Ali Shigri, who thinks his military father's suicide was actually a murder, longs to exact revenge on General Zia just as Zia's subordinates plan to poison the general in his plane.

Jennifer Government

a novel
2003
A satire of modern life in which Hack, a corporate employee in a future, extraordinarily capitalist, America, is pressured to commit murder as part of his promotion and is soon chased by a government agent--Jennifer Government--determined to punish Hack's boss, who also happens to be her ex.

Jennifer Government

a novel
2004
A satire of modern life in which Hack, a corporate employee in a future, extraordinarily capitalist, America, is pressured to commit murder as part of his promotion and is soon chased by a government agent--Jennifer Government--determined to punish Hack's boss, who also happens to be her ex.

The tin drum

1990
Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.

The tin drum

2010
Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.

Tom Clancy's Net force

state of war
2003
A rash of minor malfunctions and a sudden onslaught of lawsuits succeeds in keeping the attention of the Net Force diverted while criminal mastermind Mitchell Townsend Ames launches his sinister plot.

The terrible twos

1999
A satirical tale ranging from Christmas to Christmas, 1980 to 1990, in which the "Bosses" now own America's Presidency, Congress, and Religion and want to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus.

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