The Inside Ring: A Novel | Mike Lawson

The Inside Ring: A Novel | Mike Lawson | Solid first effort

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	The Inside Ring: A Novel Mike Lawson Doubleday, 2005 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

From a bluff overlooking Georgia?s untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man?s home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.

General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is nursing a guilty conscience. Only days before the assassination attempt on the President, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: ?Eagle One is in danger. Cancel Chattooga River. The inside ring has been compromised. This is not a joke.? The message?on Secret Service stationery?was signed ?An agent in the wrong place.? Banks immediately passed the note on to Secret Service Director Patrick Donnelly, who proceeded to ignore it.

Even after the assassin is found dead, Banks is determined to dig a little deeper. He turns to Speaker of the House John Fitzgerald Mahoney. The Speaker has a guy?an under-the-radar, go-to guy he uses for things like this?things he can?t afford to have connected to his office. The guy is Joe DeMarco, an honest lawyer with a sordid family history.

After one meeting with Banks, DeMarco realizes he?s in way over his head. But Mahoney finds the prospect of taking down Donnelly irresistible and sets DeMarco on a trail that twists through the Secret Service, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security and snakes all the way back to one of the more enduring mysteries of the twentieth century.

Brimming with suspense, authenticity, and wit, The Inside Ring marks the debut of a major new talent and introduces a cast of intriguing characters with many more cases ahead.

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A Stunner!!

After reading House Rules, the third novel by Lawson involving Joe Demarco, I decided that I should take a look at the first two. I'm glad I did as Mike Lawson's first effort with this character is a tightly woven political thriller that is hard to put down.

Others have detailed the story quite well so there is no need to repeat it. Add Lawson to your list of writers who use Wahington politics as a background for their stories to great success. The Second Perimeter awaits on a rainy day here in Maine which should make it more enjoyable.

Solid first effort

Mike Lawson has created a great first novel. While you will find the same complex plot and intrigue as other leading authors in this genre, Lawson approaches the task with an interesting set of characters and a refreshing sense of humor. The novel is a good read without taking itself too seriously.

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4 3/4 Stars

I really enjoyed this thriller. From beginning to end, it kept me enthralled. This is the first novel I've read by Michael Lawson and sure not to be the last. I have one small gripe. When you get some really evil characters I think they should suffer some evil deaths. Not quick and painless.

Enjoyable read

This book was good, but the characters should have been more fleshed out. But it was definitely enjoyable and the 'bad guys' weren't paper tigers like you find in Nelsen Demille and Vince Flynn books. I look forward to reading other books by Lawson.

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