Untouchable is the latest thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson. It features Washington DC “troubleshooter” Joe DeMarco, and is the eighteenth title in the series.
At CrimeReads Lawson tagged some favorite books that share the "theme of Untouchable—that corrupt politicians, abetted by their underlings, escape conventional justice." One entry on the list:
In the Netflix series House of Cards, Kevin Spacey plays a corrupt congressman named Francis Underwood who’s willing toRead about another entry on the list.do anything to attain power. The television series is based on a book with the same title by another British author, Michael Dobbs. In Dobbs’ House of Cards, the corrupt politician is Francis Urquhart, whovanquishes one rival after another by leaking false stories to the press, blackmailing his colleagues, and ultimately killing a reporter who could have exposed him. I mention this book not only because it’s a good book, but because it was written in 1989, almost forty years ago. As Shakespeare said: What is past is prologue.
House of Cards is among Mark Skinner's ten best British political novels, Peter Stone's twelve essential political scandal thrillers, Jeff Somers's ten best political thrillers, and Terry Stiastny’s ten top books about Westminster politics.
--Marshal Zeringue
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