Powertown
By: Michael Lind.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction.; Politicians -- Fiction.; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Description: Only a few blocks beyond the brilliant marble monuments, only a few steps behind the most powerful of Washington's elite, a whole, nearly hidden world exists - a world where high-profile fixers reign supreme while low-level bureaucrats jockey for Beltway "McJobs" and the city's impoverished slide further into squalor.

Powertown follows a range of characters separated by endless differences and yet connected by the most spidery of threads - a lobbyist, a programmer for NPR, a journalist, a drug czar's flunky, a private security guard, a Salvadoran maid, and a teenage gangsta - as they are borne along a shifting and potentially calamitous current until their destinies converge in a shocking flare-up of violence.