CAPITOL MURDER

WRITTEN BY

PHILLIP MARGOLIN

APRIL 3rd, 2012

Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller have overcome more than a few daunting challenges and powerful enemies to see justice done. Now wicked threats old and new are about to bring them together once again. Convicted serial killer Clarence Little has escaped from death row in Oregon, and Brad receives threatening messages in D.C., where he is working for Senator Jack Carson, a high-ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. A dead body, murdered according to Little's M.O., is found in the senator's Georgetown home, and Carson has disappeared. While Dana is in Oregon digging into Carson's shady background, a terrorist cell is poised to destroy a packed professional football stadium in one of the biggest attacks on American soil. As the senator's personal life begins to dovetail with the cell's evil plan, Brad and Dana will risk it all again to uncover the truth and save their country.

"Margolin's characters leap off the page and pull you into the action. Besides Brad and Dana, the author populates the book with individuals who are pathetic, terrifying, and foolhardy as well as down-to-earth and smart, but they are all frighteningly human. . . .In a novel peopled with terrorists, spies, and power hungry government officials, "Capitol Murder" is a roller coaster of a book. It brings to light the complicated issues involving laws regarding terrorism, and the challenges faced by lawyers in dealing with cases in which much of the vital information is top secret. "Capitol Murder" is a compelling story, and Margolin has the insight to combine the fiction and fact into one.
-Suspense Magazine, April 2012 issue

"Phillip Margolin writes a killer follow-up to his political fiction series that includes Executive Privilege and Supreme Justice. In Capitol Murder, Mr. Margolin not only continues his expose on political corruption in our nation's capitol, but he also weaves in the issue de jour-terrorism. Reprising his popular characters, Brad Miller and Dana Cutler, he involves them in both categories, creating a thriller with international intrigue...With his criminal attorney background, Mr. Margolin is able to create realistic drama and dialogue to draw the reader into his story...Phillip Margolin's Capitol Murder is like a cold shower-it grabs our attention and gets our adrenaline running."
- New York Journal of Books, April 3, 2012

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