PALACE COUNCIL

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008, 1^st.  ISBN 978-0-307-26658-3.  Hard cover, 514 pages.  Near fine book in a price intact very good dust jacket showing a touch of corner wear.  Binding tight; interior clean and unmarked; appears unread.  ‘… an electrifying political thriller set in the turbulent era of Watergate and Vietnam, giving us one of the most riveting and naked portraits of Nixon ever written.  In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha’s Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States.  Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem’s rising literary star.  When Eddie’s younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth.  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.’ (from front flap)