Capitol Murder (34 page)

Authors: Phillip Margolin

Tags: #Washington (D.C.), #Murder, #Political fiction, #Political, #Crime, #Murder - Investigation, #Investigation, #Suspense Fiction, #Thrillers, #Suspense, #Fiction

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Acknowledgments

I
f I kept my mouth shut about the number of people who helped me with the research and writing of
Capitol Murder
, everyone would think I was a genius, but the truth is that I could not have written
Capitol Murder
without a lot of help from a lot of wonderful people who were willing to take time from their busy days to give me the information I needed to make the book work.

Much of the book takes place in the United States Senate, and I have to thank my friend United States senator Ron Wyden for not only letting me hang around his office for several days and giving me access to his staff so that I could pester them with questions but also for personally taking me on a tour of the Capitol dome. Special thanks go to Jennifer Hoelzer, who helped set up my interviews, took me all over, and generally made my visit to the Senate a success. Thanks also to Chief of Staff Jeffrey Michels and staffers Joel Shapiro, Jayme White, Isaiah Akin, and Lisa Rockower. Finally, a warm thank-you to David Najimi, who conducted the dome tour, and was then kind enough to e-mail me the answers to specific questions. I wanted to put a scene in the dome, but it didn’t work out. Be sure to ask your congressperson to arrange a tour the next time you are in D.C. It is really interesting.

Many scenes in the book take place in the Department of Justice. I want to thank Assistant United States Attorney Charles Gorder for helping make my visit there possible, and for answering my questions about various aspects of the federal criminal justice system. Tremendous thanks to Jeff Breinholt, who showed me around the DOJ, and thank you to Erin Creegan and Steve Ward, who answered my questions about the routines of DOJ attorneys.

Thanks to Guy Berliner for showing me how the concessions at FedEx Field work, and thanks to Mike Unsworth of the Portland Police Bomb Squad, Medical Examiner Karen Gunson, Steve Perry, Dennis Balske, Steve Wax, Krista Shipsey, Anass Shaban, and Gina Farag.

Additional thanks to Mitch Berliner, Andy and Ami Rome, Daniel Margolin, Robin Haggard, and Carolyn Lindsey.

Capitol Murder
is my tenth book with HarperCollins, and I am very grateful for the support of Jonathan Burnham, Brian Murray, the sales force, and the art department, all of whom have made my long tenure with the house so enjoyable. I want to give special thanks to my wonderful editor, Claire Wachtel, and publicist par excellence Heather Drucker. And a belated thank-you to Caroline Upcher.

I thank my agents Jean Naggar, Jennifer Weltz, and everyone else at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency in every acknowledgment, but I’ve got to. Jean, Jennifer, and the rest of the crew are amazing, and I wouldn’t even be writing this book if it hadn’t been for them.

And last but never least, I thank Doreen, who is gone but who still inspires me.

About the Author

PHILLIP MARGOLIN has written fifteen
New York Times
bestsellers, including his latest novels
Supreme Justice
and
Fugitive
. Each displays a unique, compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long career as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, Margolin lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Books by Phillip Margolin

Lost Lake

Sleeping Beauty

The Associate

The Undertaker’s Widow

The Burning Man

After Dark

Gone, but Not Forgotten

The Last Innocent Man

Heartstone

WASHINGTON TRILOGY

Executive Privilege

Supreme Justice

Capitol Murder

AMANDA JAFFE NOVELS

Wild Justice

Ties That Bind

Proof Positive

Fugitive

Credits

Cover photograph © Terry Why/Getty Images

Cover design by Marc J. Cohen

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

CAPITOL MURDER
. Copyright © 2012 by Phillip Margolin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Epub Edition April 2012 ISBN: 9780062069894

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Margolin, Phillip.

Capitol murder : a novel of suspense / Phillip Margolin.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-206988-7

1. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 2. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 3. Political fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.A649C37 2012

813’.54—dc23

2011028746

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