"The Washington Decree: A Novel"--by Jussi Adler-Olsen and Steve Schein (Translator)--a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos.
The New York Times
and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is
back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America
in chaos.
The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about.
Sixteen
years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of
the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different
people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T.
Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti,
and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In
spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared
experience and devotion to their candidate.
For Doggie, who
worked the campaign trail with Wesley, Jansen's election is a personal
victory: a job in the White House, proof to her Republican father that
she was right to support Jansen, and the rise of an intelligent,
clear-headed leader with her same ideals. But the triumph is
short-lived: Jansen's pregnant wife is assassinated on election night,
and the alleged mastermind behind the shooting is none other than
Doggie's own father.
When Jansen ascends to the White House, he
is a changed man, determined to end gun violence by any means necessary.
Rights are taken away as quickly as weapons. International travel
becomes impossible. Checkpoints and roadblocks destroy infrastructure.
The media is censored. Militias declare civil war on the government. The
country is in chaos, and Jansen's former friends each find themselves
fighting a very different battle, for themselves, their rights, their
country . . . and, in Doggie's case, the life of her father, who just
may be innocent.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish
author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive
career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
He
made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached
bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his
subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company
Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on
Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne”
(2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the
Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost
fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen
”Readers' Book Award” from Berlingske Tidende-readers, the Harald
Mogensen Prize as well as the Scandinavian Crime Society's most
prestigious price ”Glass Key”. The fourth volume in the Department Q
series, “Journal 64” was published in 2010 and he was awarded the
once-in-a-lifetime-prize of “The Golden Laurels” for this in 2011”. In
December 2012 the fifth novel was published, “Marco Effekten".
Furthermore,
Jussi Adler-Olsen was awarded “Favourite Author of the Danes” in 2011,
2012 and 2013 leading the organization behind to change the set-up, so
the winner cannot be chosen more than once in a three year period.
Jussi
Adler-Olsen's novels have had such an impact abroad, that he has also
received a variety of awards there: ”The Sealed Room Award” in Japan for
“Kvinden I buret”; ”Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year”,”The
Crime - Blitz Award 2011” in Germany for “Flaskepost til P” given to the
best international crime, Elle magazine's French reader award: ”Prix de
Lectrices the Elle” for “Kvinden I buret” as well as ”The Barry Award”
in the US for “Kvinen I buret” that was elected ”Best Novel of the
Year”.
His first novel “Alfabethuset” and the first four books of
the Department Q series have been sold for film adaptation. “Kvinden I
buret” premiered in 2013 and “Fasandræberne” opens in Denmark October
2014.
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