WASHINGTON • Tomorrow, CNN anchor Jake Tapper is publishing his first novel, The Hellfire Club, a political thriller set in 1954.
It is an ambitious debut, a meticulously researched work of historical fiction with a byzantine plot punctuated by explosive, Dan Brown-esque twists: a shootout at the Capitol, blackmail, murder, corruption, a stolen dossier, a terrorist attack at the House of Representatives and a top-secret society made up of senior lawmakers, lawyers, chief executives and lobbyists, whose elite members engage in absinthe-fuelled debauchery and other unsavoury acts.
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