The Devil on the Doorstep, A Jim McGill Novel [#5]

When you win reelection to be president of the United States by one electoral vote, as Patricia Darden Grant has done, you're going to make a lot of people angry. Some of them might even try to change the outcome by violence. The Secret Service fears an assassination attempt at the president's second inauguration, one using drone launched missiles.
     The president could forsake the public ceremony, but that would tell the terrorists they have her running scared. Her second term would become a lost cause. She refuses to let that happen, and informs the Secret Service it will be up to them to keep her safe.
     Not entirely up to them, though. James J. McGill, will also be on the case. So will White House Chief of Staff Galia Mindel. Even retired SAC Celsus Crogher is called back to make sure no harm comes to the president.
     Then McGill's life gets even more complicated. His friends, Investigating Magistrate Yves Pruet and his bodyguard Odo Sacripant, come to town searching for a stolen Renoir painting. Gabbi Casale is already at the White House, finishing up McGill's official portrait. The old gang from Paris is back together.
     Only McGill feels Pruet is holding out on him. Something more than finding a masterpiece is at stake here. Something that, oddly enough, might tie in with the attempt on the president's life.

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Nailed — A Ron Ketchum Mystery

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    Ron Ketchum saw his share of the dark side of life as a cop in Los Angeles. Then he left L.A. to become the chief of police in the Sierra Nevada resort town of Goldstrike. One sunny morning in the mountains, though, he comes upon a crime unlike anything he's ever seen before.
    He finds the body of an African American man nailed to a tree.
    The victim is a highly respected minister, and his father is the nationally known televangelist Jimmy Thunder. Ron, on the other hand, has described himself in court as a recovering bigot. [more]

Defiled, A Ron Ketchum Mystery featuring John Tall Wolf, is the sequel to Nailed.
Tall Man in Ray Bans is the first John Tall Wolf novel.

The Last Ballot Cast, Part 1 & Part 2, Jim McGill Novel #4

     The Last Ballot Cast is a story so big [over 900 pages] it has to be told in two parts.
     With his son and his wife, the president of the United States, both near death, McGill makes a choice that may save, or lose, both of them.
     As McGill makes his agonizing decision, an old nemesis, Dr. Damon Todd, escapes from CIA custody. Breaking out with Todd are two former covert operatives whose past is so bloody the Agency had to retire them. Now, all three are targeting McGill.
     In Patti's absence, Acting President Wyman has to find a way to bring Reverend Burke Godfrey to justice without causing a massacre. Captain Welborn Yates draws a bead on the car thief who killed his best friends and travels to the Caribbean to set up an ambush.
     All that is but the preface for the dirtiest, three-candidate presidential election in the country's history.When all is said and done, every big question will be answered, including one that concerns us all in an election year: Does one person's vote matter?

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