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Matched by shared attributes: tense & suspenseful tone, Politics and Power & Ambition themes, slow burn pacing, and the same quality of prose.
A woman in white appears on a moonlit road, a sinister baronet controls everyone around him, and two people try to expose a conspiracy that has swallowed someone whole.
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After a political defeat, a man retreats to a remote Minnesota lake with his wife -- and then she vanishes. What follows is not a conventional mystery.
A disgraced spy is pulled back from retirement to find a Soviet mole at the very top of British intelligence.
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals will elect his successor. They are holy men. They are also ruthless political operators. And one of them is hiding something that could tear the Church apart.
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