DARK MONEY
Author: Larry D. Thompson
Publisher: Story Merchant Books
Pages: 420
Genre: Legal Thriller
DARK MONEY is
a thriller, a mystery and an expose’ of the corruption of money in politics.
Jackson
Bryant, the millionaire plaintiff lawyer who turned to pro bono work in Dead Peasants, is caught up in the
collision of money and politics when he receives a call from his old army
buddy, Walt Frazier. Walt needs his assistance in evaluating security for Texas
Governor Rob Lardner at a Halloween costume fundraiser thrown by one of the
nation’s richest Republican billionaires at his mansion in Fort Worth.
Miriam Van Zandt is the best marksman among The Alamo Defenders, an
anti-government militia group in West Texas.
She attends the fund raiser dressed as a cat burglar---wounds the governor and
murders the host’s brother, another Republican billionaire. She is shot in the
leg but manages to escape.
Jack is appointed special prosecutor and must call on the Texas DPS
SWAT team to track Van Zandt and attack the Alamo Defenders’ compound in a
lonely part of West Texas. Van Zandt’s father,
founder of the Defenders, is killed in the attack and Miriam is left in a coma.
The authorities declare victory and close the case---but Jack knows better. The
person behind the Halloween massacre has yet to be caught. When Walt and the
protective detail are sued by the fund raiser host and the widow of the dead
man, Jack follows the dark money of political contributions from the Cayman Islands to Washington
to Eastern Europe, New York and New Orleans to track the real killer and
absolve his friend and the Protective Detail of responsibility for the
massacre.
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'5 a.m. phone call broke Police
Inspector Shivaji Chavan’s sleep informing him that local jeweler Anil Kokate,
was found hanging from a tree on the banks of Pravara River in a small town of
rural India. Although the signs point to an open and shut case of suicide,
Chavan suspects foul play. While trying to find the missing pieces of the story
he finds more hidden skeletons and comes across astonishing & cruel past of
the victim. What begins as a routine investigation quickly turns darker,
ruthless and pressing. Can Chavan handle the pressure of his superiors, local
media and frightened masses? Can he navigate the system to reach the killer?
Can he solve the moral dilemma when he comes face to face with the killer?
