Palace Council
By: Stephen L Carter
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780224087179; 9780224087193
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Investigation
Description: In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. 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.