Acts of Mercy — Bill Pronzini; Barry N. Malzberg

A tense page-turner! ?Washington StarA chilling, ingenious brain-teaser by two masters of the psychological thriller. Nicholas Augustine was a rancher and a railroad enthusiast, a popular maverick whose meteoric rise to the Presidency dumbfounded every self-styled expert in Washington. But scandal threatens when someone is murdered in the White House. Loyal secret service agent Christopher Justice will do anything to protect the President. A masterful thriller of murder in the White House. Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story.?Publishers Weekly