The K Street Affair
What if a massive corporation, one with political ties on both sides of the Atlantic, decided to start a war?
Hours after a crippling attack rocks Washington, D.C., Lena Mancuso, a talented young associate at one of the country's best law firms, finds federal agents at her door, bearing unbelievable news.
Lena's clients may have financed the murder of hundreds of civilians.
The FBI wants Lena to use her insider access to spy on her firm's high profile roster of clients. Their ranks include a disgraced K Street lobbyist, a flamboyant Russian oil baron and the future Saudi king—unlikely bedfellows linked by common interests in a massive multinational corporation with lofty but sinister goals: control of the world oil markets and a takeover of the United States government.
Helping the FBI means Lena will endanger herself and everyone she loves, but refusing them feels unthinkable. Armed with a mix of smarts, intuition and grit she never knew she possessed, Lena will risk everything in a race to stop a catastrophic chain of events.
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About the Author
Mari Passananti has practiced law and worked in a major legal search firm. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island and Georgetown University Law Center, she lives in Boston, where she divides her time between writing and trying to keep up with her toddler.
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Mari grew up in Rhode Island, a state known principally for its small geographic footprint, picturesque shoreline and corrupt politicians. She is the oldest of three children of a homemaker slash poet and a bootstrap entrepreneur.
She was fortunate to travel a lot as a child (mom is from Finland, dad from Italy), but being a first generation American kid also meant that she toted weird lunches to school, where she learned that most first graders do not want to trade their PB&J for pickled beets and herring in a baggie. Her European parents also bestowed on her, at a tender age, relaxed views on body image and nudity, as well as decidedly continental opinions regarding the fitness of milk as a dinner beverage.
Mari has been asked often why she doesn't write about her experiences as a child of fresh off the boat immigrants, who incidentally could not be more different from each other. Short answer: they would probably kick her out of the family if she went there.
After college, Mari flirted with the idea of journalism school. Her dad talked her into law school (this was the last time anyone talked Mari into anything). He argued that a law degree would provide a more secure financial future, plenty of options and all the attendant good stuff that comes with having choices in life. Which it might have done, had Mari stuck with legal practice. She disliked big firm life from the get go, bailed out and became a headhunter.
She had the good fortune to make the leap during the heady dot com era, but she stuck with legal search through the bubble burst. Over the years, many of Mari's clients asked whether she regretted her decision to go to law school. Not at all. It was a tremendous education. And while it was interesting, as a twenty-one-year-old, to fantasize about becoming some prolific foreign correspondent, Mari not-so-secretly suspects that she lacks the chops to leave the comforts of home in favor of war zones and terrorist havens.
Around the time her thirty-fifth birthday started to loom large, Mari found the gumption to try to make a living as a writer. Her first novel, The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken, was published in 2011, or around the time her fortieth birthday began creeping up on the horizon. Her second book, a suspense novel titled The K Street Affair, debuted January 2013.
Mari lives with her partner, their son, one largish rescue dog and two cats in Boston's South End. Her interests include the outdoors, anything to do with horses, travel and reading.
My Thoughts:
The K Street Affair is one of those books that keeps the reader on the edge. A political, legal and terrorist story all wrapped into one very suspenseful book. Lena Mancuso is a happily married woman who is a lawyer in a prestigious law firm..the opening pages find her being evacuated from her building after a massive bomb has exploded. She soon finds her world turned upside down when she is asked by the FBI to assist them in an ongoing investigation, then her husband is found dead whether from suicide or murder, then she is kidnapped and wakes up in Russia. This book would make a great movie, filled with lots of unsavory characters, strong plot which could be taken right from today's newspapers.
Just when you think you have the story figured out, something else happens that keeps the reader guessing...I love a great suspenseful thriller and this book does not disappoint. I give it 5 stars..it is that good.
I received a copy of this book for review and I was not monetarily compensated for my review.
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