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Author:Rick Pullen
Publisher: kȍehlerbooks
ISBN: 978-1-63393-724-6
Author: Rick Pullen
Publisher: kȍehlerbooks
ISBN: 978-1-63393-724-6
Best-selling
author Rick Pullen's, Naked Truth, a thriller excursion into the
world of Washington politics is jump-started when the U.S. Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, Nino Castiglia is found dead in his
room at a private Texas resort after having a tryst with a blond
prostitute, who goes under the name of Denise Fiori.
Castiglia
was supposed to meet at the resort with Beck Rikki, a former
investigative journalist, who has an unusual quirk, he talks to a red
chair in this apartment whenever he tries to work out a problem. When
the judge does not show up for his morning appointment with Rikki, he
becomes concerned and summons the manager to open the judge's room
where the judge's body is discovered.
Rikki had no idea why
the judge wanted to meet with him and is not convinced that the judge
had died of natural causes as had been presumed. The previous night,
he saw several influential attorneys and politicians meeting with
Castiglia, and now they were in a great hurry to leave the resort.
Rikki also noticed his old buddy, Jackson Oliver, an attorney, sneak
into the judge's room after the body was removed. He wondered why
the judge was so concerned that he invited him to talk about
something privately in a public place. What was this about?
With
his journalistic instincts, Rikki smells something not right and all
was not as it appears. Remembering spotting the judge the night
before with the blond prostitute, he decides to chase her down to
find out what she knew and what happened.
Rikki manages to
track down Denise who is not very keen on talking to him and soon
after he is mugged. Incidentally, Rikki soon discovers that Denise
has a twin sister, Cara who will play a shocking role in the plot.
His girlfriend, Geneva, who is the former wife of the
President of the USA, comes to his rescue after the beating he
experienced, and as we will discover, she is not who she pretends to
be and has all kinds of skeletons in her closet.
Woven into
the plot is a mysterious secret group of powerful individuals called
the Renaissance Circle whose purpose was to eliminate the extremes on
both ends of the political spectrum, the left-wing Democrats and the
right-wing Republicans. It was to be a silent coup involving the
appointment of a replacement for Castiglia who would be supportive of
their objectives.
Naked Truth is a dizzy journey into
a complicated plot, and Pullen is not shy of sprinkling the narrative
with all kinds of obscure characters and themes. It is a tautly-paced
story of sexual and political intrigue where suspense is maintained
through to the surprising ending. We never know what and who is
hiding behind the next curve in the road, and as mentioned on the
back cover of the book, “Beck is relentless in pursuing the truth.
Yet, as he peels back the layers, he is unaware of the sleight of
hand diverting his path.”