House Arrest
Mike Lawson
Atlantic Monthly Press
February, 2019
In the thirteenth book in Mike Lawson’s celebrated series, Joe
DeMarco finds himself on the wrong side of an investigation—in the wake
of a political assassination, he’s been framed as the killer.
As the fixer for Congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe
DeMarco has had to bend and break the law more than a few times. But
when Representative Lyle Canton, House Majority Whip, is found shot dead
in his office in the U.S. Capitol and DeMarco is arrested for the
murder, DeMarco knows he’s been framed. Locked up in the Alexandria Jail
awaiting trial, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent,
to search for the true killer.
Emma’s investigation leads her to Sebastian Spear, the ruthless and
competitive CEO of the multi-billion-dollar Spear Industries. Spear had a
motive for killing Lyle Canton: Canton’s wife, Jean, had once been
Spear’s high school sweetheart and the one true love of his life—until
Canton won her over. Now Jean was dead, killed in a car crash while
driving drunk, and Spear blamed Canton for the accident. But the case
the F.B.I. has built against DeMarco is airtight, and not a single piece
of evidence points to the grieving CEO. Using her cunning and her D.C.
connections, Emma sets out to prove that Spear has been using some
fixers of his own.
Featuring crimes of passion, corporate corruption, and partisan feuds, House Arrest is a gripping, timely political thriller, and one of Lawson’s best books yet.