Imprint: No Exit Press

Category: Crime and mystery fiction

Removal

Peter Murphy

A compromised President, his murdered mistress, enemies foreign and domestic, and a rogue Marine Commander lusting for power: the impeachment is the least of America’s problems…

President Steve Wade believes his latest affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman, Lucia Benoni, is a secret. When Lucia is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI Agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate and uncovers links between Lucia, a hostile foreign power, a group of vicious white supremacists and a shadowy high-placed Washington figure known only as ‘Fox’. As Wade continues to deny the affair, the press gets on the trail. Because of the national security implications, there are demands in Congress for Wade’s impeachment but if this were to happen, the law provides that Vice President Ellen Trevathan should become President.

‘Fox’ and his associates have other plans, which do not include allowing the lawful succession to take place. As time runs out Kelly may hold the key to preventing a coup d’état and a possible civil war.

Paperback

RRP: £12.99

ISBN: 9781842435984

Published: June 22, 2012

Extent: 384 pages

Ebook

RRP: £3.99

ISBN: 9781842435991

Published: June 20, 2012

Reviews

‘Weighty and impressive’

Barry Forshaw , Crime Time

Removal is a compelling story of power and intrigue at the highest levels. A political thriller that knows its way around the corridors of power and exposes the secrets behind the headlines, it is as convincing as it is frightening. An unputdownable read

novelist

A brilliant thriller by a striking new talent. Murphy cracks open the US Constitution like a walnut. This is Seven Days in May for the 21st Century

author of the Jim Evans thriller series

Peter Murphy’s debut Removal introduces an exciting talent in the thriller genre. Murphy skilfully builds tension in sharp prose. When murder threatens the security of the most powerful nation in the world, the stakes are high!

author of the Geraldine Steel mystery series

Peter Murphy

Born in 1946, Peter Murphy graduated from Cambridge University and pursued a career in the law in England, the United States and The Hague. He practised as a barrister in London for a decade, then took up a professorship at a law school in Texas, a position he held for more than twenty years. Towards the end of that period he returned to Europe as counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague for almost a decade. In 2007 he returned to England to take up an appointment as a judge of the Crown Court. He retired as …

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