Michael Lawson
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 8
Pub. Date
2013
Description
D.C. fixer Joe DeMarco must clear Molly Mahoney's name and keep his boss Senator Mahoney clean. Before long, DeMarco discovers that there is more to Molly's case than meets the eye.
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 16
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The latest thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved "troubleshooter" Joe DeMarco. Joe DeMarco likes to call himself a troubleshooter. It sounds better than "bagman" or "fixer." With more than a decade of problem solving under his belt on behalf of John Mahoney, the Speaker of the House, DeMarco has seen his fair share of dangerous situations. When Andie Moore, a twenty-three-year-old working in the DOJ's Inspector...
3) Kingpin
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 17
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Carson Newman doesn’t wear tracksuits. He doesn’t have a consigliere or operate out of the back room of a restaurant. And as evidenced by his ever-growing Boston empire, he doesn’t get his hands dirty. Usually. Joe DeMarco, on the other hand, is paid to get his hands dirty. So, when John Mahoney, the former Speaker of the House, calls, DeMarco knows it’s time to get to work. Brian Lewis, an intern for Mahoney, has been found dead, seemingly...
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
Description
From a bluff overlooking Georgia's Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man's home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt. Even after the assassin is found dead, Andy Banks is determined to dig a little deeper. He turns to Joe...
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 5
Formats
Description
An American defense contractor goes to Iran to sell top secret missile technology, and the CIA knows all about it thanks to a spy in Tehran. But someone is Washington leaks the story to an ambitious journalist, and the spy is captured, brutally tortured, and executed.The director of the CIA isn't about to let the death of his agent go unpunished.
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"With his reputation permanently marred by an insider trading conviction, Jamison Maddox, a young Wall Street broker, reluctantly takes a job with Drexler Limited in sleepy Redemption, Illinois. Drexler Limited is run with an iron fist by a man named Claud Drexler, who tells Jamison that the company mostly does financial research for select clients. Jamison is surprised that an outfit that merely does corporate research has such elaborate security...
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 15
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When someone close to him is shot dead in a roadside motel in a small town in Wyoming, DeMarco shirks his responsibilities as the Speaker of the House's fixer to make sure the authorities are doing everything that can be done to catch the killer. He soon realizes that the rural area is dominated by Hiram Bunt, a wealthy rancher who is willing to take on the federal government at gunpoint and seems to have a number of politicians under his thumb....
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 11
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Joe DeMarco's powerful congressman boss dispatches him to Boston to help an elderly woman who's holding out against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. The congressman wants her to take a buyout, but she doesn't, and the developer disrespects him.
9) House arrest
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarco has had to bend and break the law more than a few times. But when Representative Lyle Canton, House Majority Whip, is found shot dead in his office in the U.S. Capitol and DeMarco is arrested for the murder, DeMarco knows he's been framed. Locked up in the Alexandria Jail awaiting trial, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer....
10) House blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
DeMarco's asked to look into the murder conviction of a lobbyist, but has other worries on his mind: his boss is no longer Speaker, his girlfriend's left him, and his friend Emma may be dying.
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When the Secretary of the Navy's nephew says he believes that two colleagues at a U.S. naval base may be committing fraud, his uncle is skeptical. Reluctant to launch an official investigation based on vague suspicions, the Secretary asks the Speaker of the House to send his troubleshooter, Joe DeMarco, to check out the story. As DeMarco and his friend Emma, a retired DIA agent, began to investigate what they thought was a low-stakes swindle, they...
13) House privilege
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. She's also the goddaughter of the newly elected Speaker of the House, John Mahoney, and Mahoney becomes her legal guardian. Normally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal with his new ward, but she's unavailable so he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl's okay. DeMarco's job...
14) House rules
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In the wake of a narrowly avoided terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, a Virginia senator proposes to deport all non-citizen Muslims, unless Speaker of the House John Mahoney can have investigator Joe DeMarco uncover the truth about the attacks.