Bøger af John Montgomery Buckley

The youngest of his family and pressured by sibling loyalty, Charles Daley agrees to help his conservative brother take on a Senate race against their liberal uncle currently holding the seat in this political family drama by John Buckley.Working as a rock music critic and political reporter for a popular magazine in Manhattan, Charles Daley has worked hard to get himself out of his family’s political history and into his dream job. But as Charles puts it, “it’s a problem when you want to be a reporter and your family’s the news.” Realizing he can’t run from his familial ties forever Charles gives into the pressures of sibling loyalty and agrees to help his brother in his campaign for Senate. The only issue is his brother is a strict conservative who happens to be running against their liberal uncle and foe currently holding the seat. As the campaign progresses, Charles is taken on a roller coaster ride as he balances keeping his job and handling the numerous threats towards his brother’s campaign, including family skeletons, attempted and actual murders, and angry cousins who aren’t scared to express their frustrations. “A wise, witty, wild, romp. A first-class piece of entertainment.” —Howard Blum, author of I Pledge Allegiance

A presidential speechwriter faces a series of events that threaten his career and the administration he works for in this political thriller by John Buckley.As presidential speechwriter Tom O’Malley prepares for a visit with the administration to South America, his former roommate, who’s now a bigshot drug dealer, begins blackmailing Tom into bringing cocaine back with him. As Tom’s use of pot in the 1970s begins to haunt him through his roommate’s threats, he finds himself in an unfortunate series of events that seriously threaten his career and the new Democratic president he is working for. With his CIA operative father and a dimwitted Senator complicating his position, Tom must figure out how to put an end to the blackmail without anyone else finding out. “John Buckley has apprehended the fundamental Washington paradox—a trifling, petty-minded, Goody Two-Shoes government trying to run a sprawling, filthy, dirty country.” —P. J. O’Rourke, author of Holidays in Hell