Favourite son - Steve Sohmer (First UK edition)

At precisely eight-eleven a.m. Senator Terry Fallon greeted Colonel Octavio Martinez on the Capitol steps. The timing was perfect. The leader of the Contra freedom fighters was the symbol of the popular revolution that would bring democracy to Central America, and the limelight was rightly being shared by the dashing young senator who had campaigned so fervently for the Contras’ cause. Fallon had developed reliable glamour and he was clean. He also had the best P.R. adviser in Sally Crain. With his wife in an institution, she practically ran Terry’s life.

At precisely eight-twelve a.m. the cheering swelled. You couldn’t hear the shots above the noise of the crowd but the bullets seemed to explode as they struck, and the two men swayed like drunken dancers…

Fallon’s near-martyrdom has made him an even hotter political ticket. Now some will stop at nothing to pay him off, and in the mire of Washington, scandal, sex and murder are the favoured currencies. Favourite Son is a thriller packing a dynamite punch, one that will keep readers guessing to the very last page.