Author: Richard Hawke
Publication Date: 11 May 2010
Publisher: Random House
Senator Andrew Foster has it all: charm to spare, a loving wife, a beautiful daughter, and a fast-track career that will surely land him one day in the White House. And with the sudden resignation of the vice president, that track may have gotten a lot faster.\n\nBut theres a problem.\n\nThere are people who know that Andy Fosters charm can get the better of him, and they have bugged the Shelter Island bungalow where he is enjoying a midnight tryst with a beautiful campaign adviser. But all hell breaks loose when a man carrying an iron pipe comes crashing through the bedrooms sliding glass door. Within seconds, the young woman lies bloodied, dead on the sheets, and Foster has fled in panic.\n\nAnd its all on tape.\n\nAs momentum builds for Fosters likely selection as the next vice president, the senators only hope of keeping his involvement with the murdered woman secret is to locate his blackmailers. But even they dont have their hands on the devastating images. The man they used for the job has turned the tables and is blackmailing them.\n\nAll the while, Fosters personal life is collapsing. His wife, Christine, senses that something is terribly wrong. Unhappy about their daughters living in a political fishbowl, Christine is also worried that she and her husband have drifted away from each other. Little does she know that power-hungry politicians and brutal gangsters are ready to rip her family utterly apart.\n\nFrom the rarefied halls of Washington to the briny boardwalks of Brighton Beach, Richard Hawke pulls back the curtain to reveal what is taking place inside the hearts and minds of the powerful people we read about every day in the news. With House of Secrets, Hawke has delivered a pulse-pounding thriller that ignites the fatal mixture of politics, arrogance, and lust.
