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Ellen Fines takes over her husband’s campaign for the Senate after he is killed in a car accident, but her career is threatened when a former lover, a journalist with right-wing connections, gives her sensitive documents.

Melanie Thornton’s career as a campaign staffer for presidential hopeful John Hillman is compromised by a renegade political group with scandalous information about the candidate.

When a promising young legislator is accused of the murder of a young woman, disgraced ex-cop Nik Kane is hired by a mysterious patron to investigate the case.

When a presidential candidate wins the election through sympathy votes after a terrorist attack kills his wife, CIA operative Mitch Rapp investigates dangerous allegations about the attack’s hidden agenda.

Struggling to overcome her own personality foibles in her work as an advisor to the vice president, Samantha Joyce finds herself torn by his request to fleece pharmaceutical supplies during a trip to India.

Working hard in the U.S. Senate for the rights of the underprivileged, Tommy Moran is determined to restore compassion and civility to American politics, only to find himself the target of vicious personal attacks, rumors, and assassination attempts.

Accepting a new posting within the CIA, military lawyer Sean Drummond investigates the assassination of the White House chief of staff, whose killer has threatened to assassinate the president in three days.

With her husband up for re-election, First Lady Kate Dixon returns home to care for her father, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, who suspects that Kate has been targeted by an escaped mental patient and by dark forces within the federal government.

In the failing rustbelt town of Hartsburg, Ohio, the competition between two very different candidates — born-again Christian mother Bevy Baer and Wallace Cormier, a failed Hollywood screenwriter and avowed atheist — has a profound impact on the town and for the country as a whole.

Corey Grace, a Republican senator from Ohio noted for voting his own conscience rather than the party line, becomes locked in a no-holds-barred presidential primary campaign with his rival, a member of the party establishment and leader of the Christian right.

Humankind races against time to prevent or control the repercussions of a series of international disasters, including global warming.

Hiring a private investigator to learn if a political candidate’s husband is having an affair, attorney Brady Coyne finds he is bound by attorney-client privilege from disclosing information when the investigator is murdered.

Reveals the devastating effects of the lust for power and just how far men will go to satisfy it.

Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician’s troubles.