The Crain Strategy

By C E Wood

John Thayer, Capitol Hill correspondent for a prestigious Washington newspaper, is no stranger to the intrigues and power plays of Washington politics. Still, his reporter's instincts rocket to high alert after sharp questioning by a powerful senator about a recent story in his newspaper.Thayer's story, about the death of a well-known and influential publisher, has put the senator in a fighting mood. The senator believes that the death of the publisher - a long time friend - is not from natural causes as the story reports, but is almost certainly a case of murder. The senator thinks he knows who's responsible and intends to use his powerful position to bring the killer - an obscure media mogul - to justice.When startling revelations by a beautiful subordinate of the mogul, Damien Creed, persuade Thayer to believe the senator's charges and to support him through his newspaper, he too becomes a target of the vendetta by the mysterious Creed.Thayer risks losing everything as the battle escalates and he's unable to mount a defense against such a powerful enemy. With his own life now in peril, he fears that the very survival of The United States of America depends on him and a handful of allies who have stumbled upon a diabolical conspiracy with unthinkable consequences.The little group finds itself ill-prepared to resist the dark ambitions of Creed and the most ruthless and power-hungry politician that America has ever known.The conflict soon explodes beyond a simple case of murder to a cataclysm that rocks the very foundations of the U.S. Government, threatening to extinguish nearly two and a half centuries of American democracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530930405
• ISBN13: 9781530930401
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.2" x 5.0"