Palace Council (Vintage Contemporaries)
by By Carter, Stephen L.
Category: Fiction , Thrillers , General

A gripping, nationally bestselling political thriller set against  the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.Philmont Castle is  a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd  expect to fall prey to a murderer, but then his body is found on the grounds of a  Harlem mansion by the young writer Eddie Wesley, who along with the woman he loves,  Aurelia Treene, is pulled into a twenty-year search for the truth. The disappearance  of Eddie's sister June makes their investigation even more troubling. As Eddie and  Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy  drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics all the way  to the Oval Office and President Nixon himself.