Purchasing Power: A Novel

On the first page of Purchasing Power, a man dressed for an important meeting lies dead on a busy residential street in Washington.

A few years earlier, Will Bradley arrives from Ohio to work for a U.S. congressman whose career is about to take off. In the right place at the right time, the congressman places Will in a powerful lobbying firm, where he trades favors and steers client money to feed the relentless campaign fundraising on Capitol Hill.

In the wartime fever years just after 9/11, ...