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Lasko Tangent

by Richard North Patterson

A dirty line of cash-and-carry bribery that stretches from the headquarters of a financial empire to the Oval Office of the White House. A dark connection between the President of the United States and a power-rich industrialist that no one in government dares risk his career to expose. Now, U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget has been given the toughest assignment of his career—to investigate the notorious William Lasko. Before it's over, his main witness will be run down and killed on a Boston street, another man will vanish in the Caribbean, and Christopher Paget will risk every shred of safety a man can have for one shot at a beautiful woman—and one bullet out of a gun...

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