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Title details for Capitol Threat by William Bernhardt - Available

Capitol Threat

#15 in series

by William Bernhardt
Stephen Hoye
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When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in
a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he’d end up trading the courtroom for the Senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself appointed to complete the sullied senator’s term. Now, having barely gotten his political sea legs, he must rise to yet another challenge: advising the president’s next Supreme Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation process. Luckily, Judge Thaddeus Roush’s popularity on both sides of the aisle looks to make him a shoo-in–until he decides to out himself on national television, igniting a Beltway uproar and setting the stage for a bare-knuckle partisan brawl.
Forced to scramble for spin control, Ben hastily calls a press conference for the now controversial candidate. But when, on live TV, a brutally murdered woman is discovered in the judge’s backyard. For the political forces out to torpedo the nomination of a gay Supreme Court justice, the shocking turn of events is pure gold. But Team Kincaid isn’t about to let the right man for the job get derailed.
In CAPITOL THREAT, William Bernhardt serves up a resounding one-two punch of political intrigue and legal suspense peppered with a volley of his trademark plot twists, sly wit, and persistent thrills.

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    Ben Kincaid

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  • Release date

    February 27, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415937457
      • File size: 382346 KB
      • Duration: 13:16:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Stephen Hoye's spirited narration moves this political thriller along to a nontraditional climax. The story is about a president's nomination of a United States Supreme Court candidate who instantly announces he's gay. The resulting storm of controversy and the seemingly unrelated events that eventually connect to it make for an interesting plot. Into it comes former trial lawyer and newly appointed U.S. Senator Ben Kincaid. Because of his background, Kincaid is charged with running interference for the nominee. Hoye's voices are markedly different from each other and give the listener a plethora of varied characters to enjoy. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 27, 2006
      Set in a near future in which "the Christian Congregation, one of the most powerful lobbies in the country... helped put the last three Presidents in office," Bernhardt's 15th political thriller (after Capitol Murder
      ) to feature Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid opens with an intriguing premise, but rapidly devolves into a series of improbable twists and turns. Thaddeus Roush, the Supreme Court nominee of Republican President Blake, confounds his natural base on the right by coming out of the closet ("Ladies and gentlemen, I am a gay American") during the Rose Garden ceremony announcing his selection. The reverberations from this shock wave are still being felt when Roush finds an unknown woman's corpse in his home during a televised press conference. The Democratic Party leadership turns to Kincaid, newly appointed to complete the term of a former Oklahoma senator, for help in saving Roush's nomination. Unfortunately, the book lacks the credible insider information that might offset the unlikely plot developments, while too many supporting details (tokens in the D.C. Metro?) ring false.

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  • English

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