CONSPIRACISTS GONE BANANAS –PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING!It doesn’t get much bigger than defending against treason and multiple charges of murder, where the client has been videotaped lobbing a bomb at an international figure. And this is not just any client, but actually two – the stunning Iranian twins who witnessed their parents’ murders and then were kidnapped, sold as sex slaves, trafficked to the U.S., and rescued by Maddy Rivers, private investigator and wife of celebrated Minneapolis criminal attorney Marc Kadella.Now under the watchful (but luxurious) protection of grande dame and benefactor Vivian Donahue, the girls – now all-American college students - feel compelled to protest the brutality of the regime in their country of birth by attending a demonstration against Iran’s second-most important ayatollah, who has been granted permission to seek treatment at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Specifically, Abia, the more fiery of the two, wants to throw a banana at him.And it is here that the young innocents fall into the snare of a group of conspirators intent on the assassination of the ailing ayatollah in order to trigger a war with Iran. Comprised largely of out-of-power retirees – the former Veep, a former National Security Advisor, a former Deputy Director of the CIA, a clutch of arms manufacturers, a retired general or two – the group sees the current POTUS as weak and appeasing toward Iran, and the series of international incidents triggered by the ayatollah’s assassination will lead to all-out war unless it can be stopped by people of conscience in public service simply doing their jobs.As always, Marc will do his job brilliantly – and entertainingly.
Since we know Who Done It from Page One, this is a How-Done-It, in which he is assisted by a cast of unlikely heroes and angels of all kinds (some four-legged).
Readers will go bananas for Marc’s playful court antics, partly intended to lighten the atmosphere for the terrified girls to whom he is “Uncle Marc.”For fans of political thrillers like novels by Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and David Baldacci and, of course, for lovers of courtroom drama by such masters as John Grisham, Scott Pratt, Richard North Patterson, and, of course, Eric Stanley Gardner’s beloved lawyer sleuth Perry Mason.
