The Washington Decree
Political thriller from the bestselling Nordic crime author
Democratic Governor Bruce Jansen has just won the US presidential election by a wide margin. However, the victory celebration is disrupted by an assassination attempt that kills his wife. Who is behind the tragedy? Is the killer really a local weirdo, or do the strings go back much further? With Jansen's ascension to the presidency, the United States suddenly finds itself in a situation where the new president will do anything to change American society - immediately and at any cost.
Doggie Rogers, a member of Jansen's staff, finds herself in the middle of all the action after the passage of Jansen's controversial executive order that abrogates the constitutional rights of American citizens. It will unleash hell on earth like America has never seen before. Doggie's world is about to be turned upside down. Her father is sentenced to death for the murder of the President's wife. The society is boiling and the soldiers in the streets are violently suppressing the protests of the rioting citizens. Doggie feels helpless. Does she have any friends left who can help her?
"At the beginning, when I learned that it was a political novel, I didn't feel much like reading it. But from the first pages I was directly drawn into the plot and later completely absorbed. I don't remember ever being so eager to read again. I always looked forward to picking up the book. Super read and masterfully written. "
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"A great political thriller, a bit in the style of Clancy (though without his explanatory introductions) cut with a bit of King. I couldn't completely tear myself away from the book, and it's a shame there aren't many others like it on the subject. "
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Jussi Adler-Olsen
He was born in 1950. He studied political science and film studies. He worked as a journalist, editor and publisher. He began his literary career with the bestseller Alfabethuset (The Alphabet House, 1997), followed by the novels Og hun takkede guderne (And She Thanked the Gods, 2003) and The Washington Decree (2006; Czech Host 2014). He then began to focus on topics related to his native Denmark.
So far he has written five episodes of a crime series about the Copenhagen police department Q: The Woman in the Cage (2007; Czech Host 2011), Killers (2008), Message in a Bottle (2009; both Czech Host 2012), Folder 64 (2010; Czech Host 2013) and Marco (2012). He is currently working on the sixth installment of the series. A hallmark of his style and certainly one of the reasons for the enormous international success of his books is his sense of humour, insight and irony.
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