Palace council /
Carter, Stephen.
Palace council / Stephen L. Carter. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. - 513 p. ; 25 cm.
In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office.
0307266583 0375712917 9780307266583 9780375712913
2007052134
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Palace council / Stephen L. Carter. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. - 513 p. ; 25 cm.
In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office.
0307266583 0375712917 9780307266583 9780375712913
2007052134
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.