Political Corruption Fiction

“A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author The presumed president-elect has been assassinated. The fate of the United States is at stake. And Detective Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD is to blame. Serving as extra security in a parade for the apparent presidential winner, he succumbs to a moment of distraction. That indelible lapse allows an assassin to take down the president-elect. His shame is made even more profound now that Bryan, his rivalrous brother from the Justice Department, has come to Chicago to investigate the ...

Judicial Watch, America's largest nonpartisan government watchdog, has investigated the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. Judicial Watch is the group that helped impeach Bill Clinton and took the Bush White House secrecy all the way up to the Supreme Court. Since the beginning of the Obama administration, this grassroots group has filed over 700 open records demands and dozens of lawsuits, including a successful fight over the secret Obama White House visitor logs.

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

Ex-Navy specialist, Teague Chavez, can repair temperamental marine diesels or kill a man twenty different ways, but life after the military is a rough go. He winds up as a liveaboard bodyguard and ship’s captain trying to keep his sexy high-risk client alive while sailing the tropical seas. Alice is the client, a forensic accountant and a genius with numbers. She used to ferret out corruption in the international banking system working with the highest echelon of DC insiders. Bitterly disillusioned with the system, she goes rogue with a new career of ‘lite crime’. Crushed and ...

When CIA agent Adam Darby is abducted and left stranded in the wilderness, he never expected it would lead him to a group of retired operatives, a dangerous conspiracy, and the love of his life. Betrayed by his boss and abducted during a routine stakeout, Adam finds himself lost in the rugged landscape of northern Montana. In his search for civilization, he stumbles upon some unlikely friends. The shock of betrayal and a new organization of retired operatives give Adam a determination to save his parents from blackmail, but soon finds himself fighting for the safety of all Americans.

In six minutes, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming. So says Wes Holloway, a once-cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. On that Fourth of July, Wes put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the presidential limousine. By the time the trip came to an end, Wes was permanently disfigured, and Boyle was dead, the victim of a crazed assassin.

Crime world fixer Levi gets mixed up with a widow who believes her husband was murdered - and the police are covering it up. A riveting thriller about power, corruption, and deadly politics. Levi is a fixer for one of the New York Mafia families. However, things take an unexpected turn for this mafioso when Rivka Cohen walks into his life. The police are calling her husband's death a suicide even though she has evidence that he's been murdered.

★★★★★ “Powerful, timely thrillers with sharp commentary on wealth, power, and justice.” For readers who love Women Sleuths, Crime Fiction, Murder thrillers, Psychological thrillers and more—Tom Ford is your man! TWO BOOKS, TWO FLAWED WOMEN SLEUTHS, TWO CRIMES TO SOLVE THE SILENT WITNESS Will facing her own past destroy her? Detective Evelyn Cross is a brilliant yet haunted investigator, her career plagued by whispers of instability and a scandalous past she’s tried to bury. When she takes on the unsolved 15-year-old case of Ivy Laurent—a catatonic survivor of a brutal ...

What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into 70 years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived.

FBI Special Agent Briana Song must follow every lead and outwit a faceless enemy to track down her kidnapped reporter friend before time runs out - and her friend's life is silenced forever. When an investigative reporter goes mysteriously missing from her New Orleans apartment, her friend and confidante FBI Special Agent Briana Song is determined to find out what happened. Carmen Williams had been working on an exposé into alleged corruption in D.C. and may have gotten too close to the truth. Briana knows from past cases that the first 24 hours are critical. With no solid leads, she and ...

When Josh Hagarty is recruited by the charitable organization NewAfrica to manage a farming project in an underdeveloped African country, he signs on, figuring that he can put his newly acquired graduate degree in engineering to good use. But when Josh gets situated in Africa, he finds that NewAfrica may not be the philanthropic charity it purports to be. With the help of a beautiful Scandinavian aid worker and a journalist, Josh must fight to uncover the truth.

"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming." So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a 200-year-old code.

With great corruption comes great power. Jack is pretty sure that's the way the saying goes. It's a good thing, too, for the war in Ter’nodril, which he’d hoped would spell the beginning of the end for the DIR, instead left him corrupted, body and soul. The good news is that the Fallen used the Blight that now fills his veins as a weapon in their war against the gods themselves. He’s sure that he can find a way to use it, too, to destroy Valia Online once and for all. He even knows exactly who he'll test its power against first: Manhart.

She was trying to do her job by the book. Strong undercurrent of corruption was drifting her away. Could she survive her reality? Reema was a hard working Indian girl in her twenties. When her low paying public sector job made her work sixteen hours a day she did not complain. The same job introduced her to the reality of crime and corruption. Night after night Reema found herself wide awake turning from one side to another. Corruption was not a choice though corruption was about to kill her body and soul. Would she bury her naivety to become the ghastliest evil to triumph over the evil? ...

"The Unbroken" follows Liam Allen, a former leader of the English Defence League (EDL), as he navigates the treacherous waters of a life shattered by political persecution. Growing up on the harsh streets of Luton, a town overrun by Islamic extremism and criminal gangs, Liam’s early life is a fight for survival. When he organizes a street protest in support of British troops and against the rising tide of extremism, his world is turned upside down. Hounded through the courts and thrown into the hands of England's Muslim underworld within the prison system, Liam’s refusal to be broken ...

Now that the devasting pandemic has subsided, and the election is over, Americans are eager to return to normal. But, with a stunning decision, the Supreme Court has just thrown the country into pandemonium. Under a shroud of chaos and despair, lines are drawn, and sides are chosen. As the United States begins to unravel, rogue militias march across the nation closing borders and threatening citizens. Laws are flagrantly broken by those who vowed to uphold them. Innocent citizens are kidnapped, some are killed. And, the US President is calling the shots. In disparate corners of the country,...

Will A New American Nazi Succeed? From the "safety" of Corporate America, a new enemy emerges… California Attorney General Sam Collins's fight against the dark underbelly of the insurance industry led by Charles Stone, President of Silver Hawk Insurance Company, is about to climax. Collins has spent four years accumulating damning evidence against Silver Hawk while surviving attempts on his life as he mounts a case against Stone. While Collins has always suspected Stone was a criminal, the truth he uncovers behind Stone's dark history will shock even the most stoic reader. Charles Stone, ...

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

A deepfake scandal. Foreign meddling. Personal betrayal. In Dynasty on the Hudson, a damning AI-generated video threatens to unravel the ambitions of Governor Sonny Sainto just as the road to the White House comes into view. Accused of corruption in a digital smear campaign orchestrated by shadowy forces, Sainto must navigate a labyrinth of crises—from global intrigue to political treachery at home. As the chaos escalates, he turns to a dark figure from his past, desperate to suppress the truth and reclaim control of his narrative. But every move brings him closer to the edge. A master ...

In the wake of the rebel Niyandrians' abduction attempt, Anskar DeVantte, now a knight-inferior of the Order of Eternal Vigilance, has set sail with the Grand Master, bound for the mother house in Sansor. Anskar has already begun to suspect that the Order's holy convictions aren't as pure as they appear, and his doubts are confirmed when the ship detours to the slave markets of Atya. As the Grand Master gathers an expedition to retrieve an ancient artifact from an unearthed ruin, Anskar finds himself torn.