No Safe Place

Richard North Patterson

Aug 2003 · Kerry Kilcannon Buch 1 · Verkauft von Ballantine Books

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In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying.

Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know, Kilcannon is running for President—and entering the crucial battleground of California with seven days to go. But for Kilcannon, there are hurdles that his courage, charisma, and compassion may not overcome: the network correspondent he still loves; the reporter bent on their exposure; the rival who’ll do anything to win; and the fanatic who believes that he must murder Kilcannon to protect the right to life. . . .

Autoren-Profil

Richard North Patterson's eight previous novels include the international best-sellers Degree of Guilt, Eyes of a Child, The Final Judgment, and Silent Witness. To write No Safe Place, Mr. Patterson traveled with the 1996 campaign, attended a national political convention, and observed the intimate workings of the Senate. He interviewed more than fifty people, including a former President; presidential candidates; United States senators; a cabinet secretary; senior White House staffers; political consultants, campaign managers, press secretaries, and pollsters; members of the national press; and Secret Service agents.
        Mr. Patterson is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve School of Law, and he studied creative writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.