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...turns out, Secretary Lansard Blaine, a brilliant diplomat who was up for a Nobel Peace Prize, was a compulsive lover of complaisant young women. He was also in the pay of numerous foreign corporations bent on influencing U.S. foreign trade policy. The investigation into his murder is entrusted by President Robert Lang Webster to one of his aides, Ron Fairbanks. The sleuth is given authority to question even the President himself if necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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