Don't Speak: A Jade Harrington Novel

by J L Brown

Overview

Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his 'inner conservative' to win re-election.

The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer-who has an agenda of his own-are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America. Amidst a backdrop of contemporary power politics driven by the influence of talk radio and social media, Don't Speak thrills even as it explores many of the complex issues facing Americans today.

Prescient, Don't Speak was completed a year before the 2016 US presidential election.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996977210
Publisher:	Jab Press
Publication date:	01/08/2016
Series:	Jade Harrington , #1
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Julie L. Brown is the author of the historical fiction, Bend, Don't Break (finalist for the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award), the alternative-history novel, No One Will Save Us (winner of the Independent Press Award for African American fiction, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award for Global-Africa fiction, winner of the CIBA Humor & Satire Award and finalist for the Reader Views Literary Award for historical fiction and CIBA Chaucer Award) and the creator, under the pen name J. L. Brown, of the Jade Harrington series, political thrillers which include the novels, Don't Speak, Rule of Law, and The Divide, and the short story, "Few Are Chosen."She is a member of Black Women Write Seattle, Crime Writers of Color, the Historical Novel Society, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.Julie earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on her next novel. You can find her on linktr.ee/julielbrown

Editorial Reviews

"Brown has created strong, intriguing leads in Jade and Whitney, both seemingly poised to continue in future adventures...a promising debut...an engaging novel."

—Kirkus Reviews

"DON'T SPEAK is fast-paced, entertaining, and full of twists - I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jade Harrington is a kickass heroine."

—Meg Gardiner, author of UNSUB

"If you've been wishing someone would start writing smart thrillers richly laced with public policy, J. L. Brown is for you."

—Howard Michael Gould, author of LAST LOOKS

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