Removal

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President Steve Wade believes his affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman is a secret. When she is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate. What follows is a tangled web of vicious white supremacists, a hostile foreign power and a shadowy high placed Washington figure known only as Fox. Suddenly, impeachement looks like the least of President Wade's worries as civil war threatens, and he faces a Coup d'Etat from the mysterious Fox.

Peter Murphy was born in 1946. After graduating from Cambridge University he spent a career in the law, as an advocate and teacher, both in England and the United States. His legal work included a number of years in The Hague as defence counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal. He lives with his wife in Cambridgeshire.

Weighty and impressive -- Barry Forshaw * Crime Time * Removal is a compelling story of power and intrigue at the highest levels. A political thriller that knows its way around the corridors of power and exposes the secrets behind the headlines, it is as convincing as it is frightening. An unputdownable read -- David Ambrose, novelist, playwright A brilliant thriller by a striking new talent. Murphy cracks open the US Constitution like a walnut. This is Seven Days in May for the 21st Century -- Clem Chambers, author of the Jim Evans thriller series Peter Murphy's debut Removal introduces an exciting talent in the thriller genre. Murphy skilfully builds tension in sharp prose. When murder threatens the security of the most powerful nation in the world, the stakes are high! -- Leigh Russell, author of the Geraldine Steel mystery series