Potomac Fever: A Novel
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ISBN: 0316354724 / Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, May 1999
Detective Cal Terrell and Sgt. Roberta Short of the Washington, D.C., police find that an apparently simple murder case has drawn attention and outright interference from some extremely powerful people, leading to cover-ups of real estate deals and illicit sex
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Cal Terrell and Bobbie Short are homicide detectives in Washington, D.C. - where murder is so prevalent, it rivals politics as a growth industry.When Mary Jeanne Turner's cocaine-racked body bobs up in the Chesapeake Bay, Cal and Bobbie think she's just another statistic in Washington's blood-drenched drug culture. From them, the real action that week is the Reggae Club massacre, where a drive-by machine-gun attack on teenagers has exposed the inability of the mightiest government on earth to protect the young in its capital. The shooting puts the reelection bid of the city's powerful mayor on the line, and the White House that created him under attack.But Mary Jeanne's twenty-year-old life was not as simple as it first seemed. The investigation leads Cal and Bobbie into Washington's notorious political machine, where men and women are consumed by Potomac fever - that unique Washington obsession with power and what it can achieve.
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