Are you jingle-belled out? Perhaps you'd like to sit down with an exciting thriller and escape the manic hordes at the malls? Here's a suggestion, The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson. I missed this one first time around, but now that it's been released in paperback, I have a second chance to discover Seattle-based Lawson's intriguing series.
The Seattle Times selected The Inside Ring as one of the ten best thrillers of 2005 and it's the debut of the Joe DeMarco series. The book starts out with an assassination attempt on the president. Although the president is wounded, his best friend and secret service agent is killed. Then the man claiming to be the assassin is found dead in his house.
Washington, DC lawyer Joe DeMarco is a "fixer" for House Speaker Mahoney. When the Secretary for Homeland Security reveals to the Speaker that prior to the attempt on the president, he had received a note warning of the danger and implicating the secret service agents on guard duty. Rather than take this information to the FBI, the Secretary asks Mahoney for help. DeMarco is assigned the job of determining if the Secret Service is indeed involved.
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