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Mike Lawson is a former senior civilian executive for the U.S. Navy. He is the author of eight previous novels starring Joe DeMarco.
Warrior of Fire
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9781460387788
- Publisher: Harlequin
- Publication date: 12/01/2015
- Series: Warriors of Ireland , #2
- Sold by: HARLEQUIN
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 288
- Sales rank: 130,844
- File size: 329 KB
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The ninth installment in Mike Lawson’s Washington, D.C. political thriller series launches readers back into Joe DeMarco’s past—to the murder of his father, which was never investigated, let alone solved.
DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didn’t understand that Gino had been a hitman until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Gino’s former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something off his chest before retiring to his grave: the truth about Gino’s killer. The shocking information, and the powerful position the killer now occupies, sends DeMarco on a mission of revenge with terrible consequences. And after the secret being kept for so long, DeMarco has to rush to do something about it: the killer is on the brink of taking a job in Washington, D.C. that will leave him untouchable.
With his job, his morals, and his very life on the line, DeMarco must ask himself: How far will he go for revenge?
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Publishers Weekly
05/19/2014In Lawson’s enjoyable ninth Joe DeMarco thriller (after 2013’s House Odds), the Congressional fix-it man steps out of the Washington, D.C., political mud to focus on a personal quest: tracking down the man who murdered his father decades ago. DeMarco has long known that his father, Gino, worked for a violent mobster in New York City. Now a dying mobster who knew Gino reveals that a corrupt cop, whose career has since blossomed, was the killer. DeMarco, much to the displeasure of his boss, sleazy Congressman John Mahoney, sets out to avenge his father’s murder. To further complicate his quest, his target is about to assume a high-level government job in Washington. A well-balanced plot reveals the intriguing backstory of the likable DeMarco, who knows that handling life’s problems is often a matter of compromise. Agent: David Gernert, Gernert Company. (July)
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"A compelling story of vengeance. Lawson is a gifted master."—Rick Mofina, bestselling author of Whirlwind“House Reckoning is a fine thriller with a tense, twisting plot and a sociopathic villain worthy of a seat in the House.”—Booklist
“Fast, assured and as refreshingly unsentimental as Joe himself.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Enjoyable. . . . A well-balanced plot reveals the intriguing backstory of the likable DeMarco.”—Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews
2014-05-21Now that he’s tangled with every kind of Beltway lowlife imaginable (House Odds, 2013, etc.), fixer Joe DeMarco reaches over the miles and years to go after the man who killed his father.Prefiguring his son’s complicated relationship to moral and legal ideals, Gino DeMarco was a good guy who kept drawing lines and then crossing them. When he lost his job as a longshoreman and his childhood friend Jerry Kennedy got him work as a bagman for Carmine Taliaferro, he told himself he wouldn’t kill anyone, then killed plenty of people, though all of them were criminals. Eventually, his determination to avenge Kennedy’s murder made him dispensable, and Carmine had him killed by Brian Quinn, a rising rookie cop also on his books. By the time dying underboss Tony Benedetto sees fit to tell Joe what happened to his old man many years ago, Joe’s settled into his job as a bottom feeder at the trough of House Minority Leader John Mahoney, and Quinn, the NYPD commissioner, is about to be nominated director of the FBI. Furious that Mahoney won’t back up his attempts to lean on Quinn, Joe threatens his boss with blackmail and promptly gets fired for his pains, leaving him basically alone and unfunded as he confronts an enemy who’s wealthy, powerful and surrounded by cops and civilians only too eager to do his bidding. Joe contemplates killing Quinn, torpedoing his nomination and ruining his reputation. When his moment of vengeance finally presents itself, though, it arrives in an utterly unexpected form, with bittersweet results that perfectly balance the demands of the revenge formula with the need to keep Joe afloat for further adventures.Fast, assured and as refreshingly unsentimental as Joe himself.