Shining City, Tom Rosenstiel
Shining City, Tom Rosenstiel
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Shining City
A Novel

Author: Tom Rosenstiel

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 02/21/2017


Synopsis

Peter Rena is a “fixer.” He and his partner, Randi Brooks, earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. They get their biggest job yet when the White House hires them to vet the president’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Judge Roland Madison is a legal giant, but he’s a political maverick, with views that might make the already tricky confirmation process even more difficult. Rena and his team go full-bore to cover every inch of the judge’s past, while the competing factions of Washington D.C. mobilize with frightening intensity: ambitious senators, garrulous journalists, and wily power players on both sides of the aisle.

All of that becomes background when a string of seemingly random killings overlaps with Rena’s investigation, with Judge Madison a possible target. Racing against the clock to keep his nominee safe, the President satisfied, and the political wolves at bay, Rena learns just how dangerous Washington’s obsession with power—how to get it and how to keep it—can be.

Written with razor-sharp political insight and heart-pounding action, Shining City is a hugely impressive debut that announces a major new talent.

About Tom Rosenstiel

Tom Rosenstiel is the author of eleven books, four of which are novels. His nonfiction is focused on politics and media, and he is recognized as one of the leading thinkers in the country in the future of media. His book The Elements of Journalism, now in its fourth edition, has been translated into more than 25 languages. Tom is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the future of Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He formerly was the executive director of the American Press Institute and the founder and director of the media research unit at Pew Research Center, which he directed for 16 years. He was the press critic of the Los Angeles Times for a decade and is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He lives in Chevy Chase Maryland with his wife, Rima.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Max

I read this book largely on the Michael Connelly book jacket blurb (I know, naive) and also the solid Goodreads ratings. My quick critique: front loaded with too many characters not relevant to the plot. The romantic side of the story seemed cut and paste-not believable...but overall an interesting......more

Goodreads review by Glen

A political fixer is hired to vet a supreme court nominee. The confirmation battle jumps into high gear, and the nominee becomes an assassination target. Seems pretty tame after the Kavanaugh nomination.......more

Goodreads review by John

No need to choose between entertaining and informative -- Shining City is both. A first-rate and gripping story of a Supreme Court nomination, the inner-workings of Washington, with a heart thumping series of murders . . . Should be a hit in this season.......more

Goodreads review by karen

I feel tricked! This book is basically a procedural on how to politically create a Supreme Court Justice. Not a bad thing necessarily but there is also a major and useless side plot about a serial killer that goes nowhere. And the author not once, not twice, but three times openly hints at a twist t......more