Sam Walker is a struggling young writer with a meagre contract to write yet another book about the so-called Miracle Election. Then an anonymous note causes him to stumble on an incredible truth that makes his book an American legend to be read for generations. But Walker cannot help questioning a few loose ends in his own account. Worse than the fate of an exposed liar is that of a truth-teller alone with the truth.

Did drug-trafficker Marcus Strenk escape from Minnesota's maximum-security prison during a blizzard-or die trying? Deputy Marshal Henry Scott thinks, rightly, that Strenk actually found a way past all the most modern security devices known to man and made it to freedom. But the search Scott puts into gear is quickly spiked by Alec Barkley, the very FBI agent that put Strenk in jail-spiked, that is, until Strenk's cheery note from outside arrives at the prison and Barkley puts every available agent on the manhunt. Meanwhile, Henry Scott examines Barkley's espionage operation against Strenk's...

Be careful about the advice you give: someone just might take it. On a two-hour airplane flight, road warrior Hal Dormund, half-delirious from jet-lag and meetings in eight countries, gave a rambling monologue of advice to a teary-eyed teenager - she would turn out to be a runaway -- who had sat down beside him. "Find what you like best and work like hell at it," he said. It is now seven years later, and she has finally found him to thank him and say that she took his advice to heart. All of it: to Hal's amazement, Mary Ann recites whole passages of his monologue word for word. What Mary Ann...

Did drug-trafficker Marcus Strenk die trying to escape from Minnesota's maximum-security underground prison during a blizzard? Or did he actually escape? Or is his disappearance the finishing touch of a smart FBI intel op against the top Mexican drug cartel? After all, why else would the Bureau spike the U.S. Marshals' investigation? But if they did, why did Strenk send a cheery postcard to piss off the prison guards? And why did the Bureau jump on the manhunt? Or was that just for appearances? Here are some hints: Strenk knows nothing of the op, the FBI knows nothing of Strenk's whereabouts,...

Mockery is a political whodunit: who arranged the two scandals that sank the two major-party presidential candidates and swung victory to the Independent candidate? Sam Walker, a young history-book writer conned into covering the election by his editors, receives an anonymous post-election note: two campaign staffers from different parties colluded to bring about the scandals. He investigates, and the incredible truth pops out: that the scandals were triggered by an innocent mix-up of video tapes. A presidential election, it seems, can be lost as easily as a wallet. Alone with his scoop, Sam...

On a two-hour airplane flight, businessmanHal Dormundgave a rambling monologue of advice to theteen girl --a runaway -- beside him. "Find what you like best and work like hell at it," he said. Seven years later, she has finally found him to say that she took his advice to heart.What Mary Ann liked best was dance, and from the moment she got off that airplane, she hastrained every day. And it haspaid off: now she'sthe star of a Broadway dance production. As the show becomes a hit and Mary Ann a nationalstar, her romance with Hal takes off.But dark forces are workingagainst both of them. Mary...