House Privilege, Mike Lawson
House Privilege, Mike Lawson
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House Privilege
A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Author: Mike Lawson

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Synopsis

In House Privilege, the fourteenth novel in the Joe DeMarco series, Mike Lawson sends his likeable protagonist to Boston, into the world of hedge funds and trust funds.When Congressman and DeMarco’s long-time employer John Mahoney gains custody of his fifteen-year-old goddaughter, Cassie Russell, he sends DeMarco to evaluate the situation. Cassie’s parents have just perished in a plane crash that Cassie survived, and she has now inherited her father’s billions. DeMarco plans to advise Mahoney to leave Erin Kelly, manager of the Russell’s fund, in charge of Cassie’s finances, but he soon learns that Erin may not be as trustworthy as she first appeared.DeMarco’s digging alarms Erin, who has much to hide, and sets in motion a series of increasingly drastic plans that Erin has devised to protect herself and her wealth. But Cassie has touched DeMarco’s heart of gold, and he won’t let anyone get away with hurting her. A competition in plotting and out-plotting, this latest installment in the series ventures off the grid and outside the reach of extradition treaties for an exhilarating read.

About Mike Lawson

Mike Lawson, a former senior civilian executive for the US Navy, is the author of numerous novels starring Joe DeMarco. His first book, The Inside Ring, was rated by the Seattle Times as one of the top ten thrillers of 2005 and was a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Thriller. House Secrets was selected as one of the best thrillers of 2009 by Library Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Great read. This is the second book I’ve read by this author and don’t know why he is not more widely known. His stories are as solid as any major bestseller and worth a look if you haven’t already tried him. He writes in third person, (mostly distant third), the old style, of “telling,” the story (i......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov

I’ve read most of this series and this book is one of the best. If you don’t already know, Joe DeMarco, you can still read this one and be very well entertained, but there is an extra measure to be gained from reading the books in order. Who is DeMarco? Let’s just take a long paragraph from this book......more

Quotes

“Smooth operator is a flexible idiom that can mean a charming person who manipulates others easily with a gracious skill set, or it can mean a clever scoundrel. Joe DeMarco, a fixer for a corrupt congressman, can assume either persona on an ad hoc basis….As always, justice is done, legalities be damned, and off goes DeMarco for a long-overdue game of golf in sunny Florida. This is a consistently entertaining, well-crafted series.” Booklist (starred review)

“Excellent…No surprise, the resourceful Demarco finds ingenious ways to solve all the problems. The author’s felicitous style will keep readers smiling throughout. Lawson remains at the top of his game.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Awards

  • Booklist Pick
  • Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
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