The Washington Decree: A Novel
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 152474252X
- ISBN 13
- 9781524742522
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New York: Dutton, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/F. First American Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Jussi Adler-Olsen on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head lightly creased. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 569 pages.
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.
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- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
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- 3009
- Title
- The Washington Decree: A Novel
- Author
- Jussi Adler-Olsen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 152474252X
- ISBN 13
- 9781524742522
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- dictatorship, militias, gun control, president, civil war
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