The First Lady

By Ed Gorman,

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You’ve probably heard books and movies described as roller coaster rides. This one is part of a roller coaster ride.

The first two-hundred and thirty pages are the roller coaster going up the first big hill. The last one-hundred and forty pages is the roller coaster screaming down the big hill, going faster and faster and faster. The last part of this book is intense. I read those last one-hundred and forty pages in two sittings, staying up later than I intended. I haven’t read something that intense in some time.

Gorman does an amazing job of fleshing out the…

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