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Palace Council
by: Stephen L. Carter

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780307266583
ISBN: 0307266583
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: July 08, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: July 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 7861
Studio: Knopf

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USA Today called Stephen L. Carter’s last novel “the perfect summer read . . . Carter slips in so many original, thought-provoking observations that the reader is sad the killer has been caught.” Now Carter, the best-selling author of New England White, is back with Palace Council, a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.

Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He’s the last person you’d expect
to fall prey to a murderer, but when his body is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion, the young writer Eddie Wesley, along with the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twenty-year search for the truth. The disappearance of Eddie’s sister June makes their investigation even more troubling. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics all the way to the Oval Office and President Nixon himself.

Suspenseful, provocative, and witty, Palace Council turns our assumptions inside out and reminds us how the struggles of that era set the stage for America today.

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- A New Generation of Legal Thrillers is Here

Reviewed by Narayan Radhakrishnan for RebeccasReads (9/08)

If the late Nineties was the Grisham era in the world of legal thrillers, I just feel that this millennium belongs to Stephen Carter. Carter with his previous two books, "The Emperor Of Ocean Park" and "New England White" had carved out a neat niche in the legal thriller genre, and raised the ambit and scope legal fiction to a hitherto unknown new level. With "Palace Council" Professor Carter reaffirms his position as the architect of the next generation legal thriller. At the same time I should also mention, "Palace Council" is not 100% a legal thriller; it is more a politico-legal fiction that transcends the thriller genre to that of literature.

The novel is set in the Sixties, or rather from the Fifties to the Seventies. A secret society has been formed to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon, ... Read More

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- Palace Council Delivers
I really enjoyed this novel. My sister and I read it together and had a great time discussing the many characters, the plot and what we thought was going to happen next and then finally at the end. I hope that Mr. Carter is working away on his next novel because we are waiting.

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- Palance Council
Once again Stephen Carter has written an excellent mystery. I've recommended it to serveral of my friends and they have all purchased the book.

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- Palace Council is Carter's Best Book Yet!
"We love Stephen L. Carter, the author of the acclaimed novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, even if he is a law professor. Palace Council is his best book yet. The haves and the have nots of the African American community battle for control to determine who is really making the decisions for control of the United States. Carter keeps the reader turning page after page until disclosing a breathtaking conclusion."

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