The Candidate, Lis Wiehl
The Candidate, Lis Wiehl
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The Candidate

Author: Lis Wiehl, Sebastian Stuart

Narrator: Devon O'Day

Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 10/04/2016

Synopsis

How far will a candidate go to become president? Erica Sparks—America’s top-rated cable-news host— is about to find out.Mike Ortiz is a dynamic war hero favored to win the White House. Standing by his side is his glamorous and adoring wife, Celeste. But something about this seemingly perfect couple troubles Erica. Is Celeste really who she seems? And most importantly, what really happened in that squalid Al-Qaeda prison where Mike Ortiz spent nine months?But more than the nation’s future is at stake. Erica’s relentless search for the truth puts the life of her preteen daughter Jenny in danger, even as Erica’s own dark past threatens to overtake her.In her latest Newsmakers thriller, New York Times bestselling author and Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl weaves a taut and chilling story. The Candidate is packed with political intrigue and media manipulation as the lust for power turns deadly indeed.

About Lis Wiehl

New York Times bestselling author Lis Wiehl is the former legal analyst for Fox News and the O’Reilly Factor and has appeared regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and the Imus morning shows. The former cohost of WOR radio's WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl, she has served as legal analyst and reporter for NBC News and NPR's All Things Considered, as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's office, and as a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. She appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst.

About Sebastian Stuart

Sebastian Stuart has published four novels under his own name, including The Hour Between, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award and an NPR Season’s Readings selection. He has also co-written national and New York Times bestselling books. As senior editor of e-book publisher New Word City, Stuart has written over two dozen original non-fiction e-books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on July 06, 2016

This is the follow up book in the 'Newsmakers' series by Lis Wiehl, the first one 'Newsmakers' I had previously read and enjoyed. The book and series is a little different to the usual whodunit genre I normally read but comes as a pleasant change. The series follows the life of successful News report......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on November 10, 2022

An improvement over the first entry in the series. Could have done without that gruesome shooting scene, though.........more

Goodreads review by Hristina on April 25, 2017

I've been staring at this for about ten minutes, and I don't know what to say. So I found a gif: It's not a horrible book, it's okay. It's just... In a way it took back all the progress Erica made in book one, and that really pissed me off. I hope book three will be better.......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 04, 2016

A special thank you to Thomas Nelson and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Lis Wiehl returns following The Newsmakers, (2014) with THE CANDIDATE, a continuation of her riveting series featuring an unstoppable heroine, Newscaster Erica Sparks, we met in Newmakers #1; Blonde, b......more

Goodreads review by Monnie on October 22, 2016

Count me as one who's never been a fan of the political scene; I'd sooner pull my fingernails out one by one than watch more than a few minutes of a debate (never more true than in this election year). Still, the process is interesting to me if only because of my background in journalism and psychol......more

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