From bestselling author Mike Lawson comes the most recent installment in the award-winning Joe DeMarco series.

As a fixer for influential congressman John Mahoney in Washington, DC, Joe DeMarco has found himself in plenty of unexpected and dangerous situations. In House Competitors, DeMarco is taken further out of his element than previously, delivered to North Dakota to safeguard a passionate but naïve twenty-two-year-old blogger that has place herself in harm’s way.

The young woman is Sarah Johnson, whose about House Rivals: A Joe DeMarco Thriller grandfather saved Mahoney’s life in Vietnam. For the past two years, Sarah continues to be on the relentless crusade against a billionaire essential oil tycoon that has profited handsomely in the natural gas boom in the Dakotas-and who she believes has been bribing small-time politicians and judges to maintain items in his favour. Though she has no hard evidence against the man, Sarah continues to be assaulted and received loss of life threats for her meddling. DeMarco, given his years of knowledge bending the guidelines in DC, suspects a middleman like himself is pulling strings for the tycoon. But mainly because DeMarco tries to identify his adversaries, the problem turns unexpectedly violent, and DeMarco discovers himself inside a battle of wits against two ruthless problem solvers who will stop at nothing at all to win.

“This tenth Joe DeMarco political thriller tackles the murky world of state and local politics with the series’ hallmark blend of danger and cynical wit…This is a good thriller, both suspenseful and smart, much in the manner of the great Ross Thomas.”-Booklist