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Description

1. 348 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod, the Machiavellian incumbent, was spared from impeachment only because his political foes were certain they would oust him at the ballot box. Now, he appears to have secured a second term, thanks to a narrow victory in the Electoral College. His opponent, Florida Senator Evan Stahl, saw his campaign rocked by allegations of an extramarital affair--with another man. Despite the salacious headline-making scandal and the surrounding media frenzy, most Americans chose Stahl to lead the politically polarized nation. But Stahl is refusing to concede. Backed by millions of supporters, he looks to individual members of the Electoral College to cross party lines. Gun lobbyist Charlotte Holmes is one of Florida's twenty-nine electors who is bound by law and by oath to cast her vote for MacLeod, who won Florida by the thinnest of margins. When Charlotte announces that she intends to vote her conscience and throw the Electoral College to Stahl, the president and his Florida machine haul her into court on felony charges--which, for some, isn't nearly punishment enough. Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is going to use every legal maneuver he can to keep his new client free--and alive. MacLeod's hand-picked prosecutor is determined to prove Charlotte is unfit to cast a vote. Dredging through her past, he's looking for skeletons to humiliate and discredit her, while others with far deadlier intentions have begun acting on their threats. As the pressure mounts, Charlotte and Jack must decide how far they'll go to stand their ground in the stand-your-ground state.--

Series statement

1. A Jack Swyteck novel ; [book 16]
2. Grippando, James, 1958- Jack Swyteck novel ; bk. 16.

Subject

1. Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character) > Fiction
2. Swyteck, Jack (Fictitious character)
3. Lobbyists > Fiction
4. Presidents > Elections > Fiction
5. Courts > Florida > Fiction
6. Political corruption > United States > Fiction
7. Presidents > United States > Elections > Fiction
8. Lobbyists > United States > Fiction
9. FICTION / Thrillers / Legal
10. FICTION / Crime
11. FICTION / Political
12. Courts
13. Lobbyists
14. Political corruption
15. Presidents > Election
16. Florida
17. United States

Genre/Form

1. Legal fiction.
2. Fiction.
3. Legal fiction (Literature)
4. Political fiction.
5. Thrillers (Fiction)

Call number

1. JFE 20-6080

Author

1. Grippando, James, 1958- author.

Title

1. The big lie / James Grippando.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. A Jack Swyteck novel ; [book 16]
2. Grippando, James, 1958- Jack Swyteck novel ; bk. 16.

ISBN

1. 9780062915047 hardcover
2. 0062915045 hardcover
3. 9780062979278 (pbk., L. P.)
4. 0062979272 (pbk., L. P.)

Research call number

1. JFE 20-6080