Presidential deal

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Les Standiford, whom James Ellroy has hailed as "the unassailable new kingpin of the South Florida crime novel," serves up his most ambitious, irresistible tale yet. Presidential Deal propels building contractor/sleuth John Deal into the center of a national crisis—the abduction of the First Lady—and drives him to levels of heroism and ingenuity remarkable even for him.
As Deal sits uncomfortably in a Miami hotel, preparing to accept an award whose notoriety he'd just as soon avoid, chaos erupts. A bomb explodes on a plane at Miami International Airport. Then, before Deal's eyes, terrorists interrupt the awards ceremony with machine-gun fire. As the assembled dignitaries fall under a shower of bullets, Deal grabs the ceremony's emcee, Linda Barnes Sheldon, wife of the President, and escapes. But Deal's spontaneous bravery plays into the hand of a suavely masterful madman, and he and the First Lady are taken captive.
In a thrilling plot that unfolds against the backdrop of the... Tovább

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Les Standiford, whom James Ellroy has hailed as "the unassailable new kingpin of the South Florida crime novel," serves up his most ambitious, irresistible tale yet. Presidential Deal propels building contractor/sleuth John Deal into the center of a national crisis—the abduction of the First Lady—and drives him to levels of heroism and ingenuity remarkable even for him.
As Deal sits uncomfortably in a Miami hotel, preparing to accept an award whose notoriety he'd just as soon avoid, chaos erupts. A bomb explodes on a plane at Miami International Airport. Then, before Deal's eyes, terrorists interrupt the awards ceremony with machine-gun fire. As the assembled dignitaries fall under a shower of bullets, Deal grabs the ceremony's emcee, Linda Barnes Sheldon, wife of the President, and escapes. But Deal's spontaneous bravery plays into the hand of a suavely masterful madman, and he and the First Lady are taken captive.
In a thrilling plot that unfolds against the backdrop of the storm-tossed Caribbean, Deal and Linda Sheldon must struggle to escape the clutches of their captor, a onetime U.S. operative in Central America who now harbors a deadly hatred for his former employers. At the same time, Vernon Driscoll, Deal's old friend and ex-Metro-Dade homicide detective, uncovers evidence of unthinkable treachery behind Deal's disappearance, evidence that points to the very highest levels of our government.
As devotees of Les Standiford's work will expect. Presidential Deal excels on several fronts.
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Its plotting is both intricate and pyrotechnic, its prose is gritty yet lyrical, and its characters are simultaneously quirky and convincing. Throughout Presidential Deal, Standiford shines a piercing light into humanity's deepest realms, where both friendship and betrayal, and cowardice and heroism, are spawned.


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Les Standiford is the highly
acclaimed author of Spill, Done Deal, Raw Deal, Deal to Die For, and Deal on Ice, and is the recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife and their three children.

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