{"product_id":"9780099527022_234","title":"Palace Council by L Carter, Stephen | Subject:Literature \u0026 Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. The murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands and Eddie is determined to find out why he was killed and what the cross signifies. But then Eddie's sister Junie becomes entangled in an underground movement and vanishes...Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the President of the United States? Review A brilliant literary thriller, packed with insight, intelligence and ideas...Eye-opening and absorbing: I really couldn't put it down,Literary ReviewCarter employs conspiratorial and paranoid plotting to highlight the reality of American political division ...skilled at injecting pace and tension...a historical thriller that efficiently delivers both thrills and history, especially in the still under-developed chronicles of black America -- Mark Lawson,GuardianIntricate plotting... richly involving,IndependentCrisp and enthralling...an ambitious novel...that covers the social, political and cultural changes in post-war America from the point of view of the black elite,Daily TelegraphInsights into a realm little known in the UK,The Times About the Author Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author of several non-fiction books and the novelThe Emperor of Ocean Park.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used Good | Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Used Good","offer_id":42917281071350,"sku":"9780099527022_F3_D6","price":99.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/514V-NYTV2L.jpg?v=1648200859","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/9780099527022_234","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}