Book description
No Safe Place
centres on seven days in a closly contested Presidential primary, in
which political violence, abortion politics and potential scandal all
converge. Kerry Kilcannon is a young senator from New Jersey, the
younger brother of a murdered presidential aspirant. Now Kerry, too, is
seeking the presidency. But Kerry's past and present have begun to
converge. Unknown to him, he is being stalked by Sean Burke, an
anti-abortion fanatic intent on killing him before election day. And
Nate Cutler, a political reporter for a national newsmagazine is trying
to establish that two years before - while still married - Kilcannon had
an affair with Lara Costello, another reporter covering Kilcannonm which
resulted in an abortion. Through a narrative which weaves past and
present, No Safe Place
introduces the compelling character, Kerry Kilcannon, and raises
questions about abortion politics, the gun culture in America, and the
degree to which the press is - or should be - intent on exposing the
private lives of political leaders. On the eve of the election, those
forces converge in a sensational and shocking climax. Richard North
Patterson has written a number of novels including the international
bestsellers, Degree of Guilt
, Eyes of a Child
, The Final Judgement
, Silent Witness
, No Safe Place
, Dark Lady
and Protect and Defend
. His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de
Littérature Policière. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family
in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
