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Don't Speak: A Jade Harrington Novel
By Julie L. Brown
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Age Groups: 18+
The nursery rhyme was wrong. Words can hurt you.
Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his ‘inner conservative’ to win re-election.
The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer—who has an agenda of his own—are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America. Amidst a backdrop of contemporary power politics driven by the influence of talk radio and social media, DON’T SPEAK thrills even as it explores many of the complex issues facing Americans today.
Prescient, Don’t Speak was completed a year before the 2016 US presidential election.
Formats
EBOOK, AUDIO, PAPERBACK
Reviews
Howard Michael Gould, author of LAST LOOKS
"If you've been wishing someone would start writing smart thrillers richly laced with public policy, J. L. Brown is for you."
Meg Gardiner, author of UNSUB
"DON'T SPEAK is fast-paced, entertaining, and full of twists--I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jade Harrington is a kickass heroine."
Kirkus Reviews
"Brown has created strong, intriguing leads in Jade and Whitney, both seemingly poised to continue in future adventures...a promising debut...an engaging novel."
Where to buy
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