Congress and the world are shocked by the brazen attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House. The villains will not give up until the job is done. Author Christopher Emery provides another powerful Washington mystery that includes assassination, lust, intrigue, and deceit in a struggle for power. Who Shot the Speaker? is the second in the debut series and follows Who Killed the President?, a Washington, DC whodunit authored by a true White House insider, former White House Usher Chris Emery. The novel revolves around the shocking murder of the president of the United States, which occurred right inside the White House. Almost as shocking, details emerge implicating a member of the White House Ushers Office. The evidence seems overwhelming, and the case is considered open and closed. If only the rest of the world knew the intrigue and subterfuge…everything that went on behind the scenes and just beneath the glossy white veneer of America’s most venerated house. In Who Killed the President?, Chief Usher Bartholomew Winston, a fifty-year veteran of the White House, works with investigators to uncover the truth, even if it means diving headfirst into dangerous political waters to uncover it. The sequel, Who Shot the Speaker?, can be enjoyed independently.
It’s less than two months until the 2024 elections. The two presidential candidates are going on television to debate the issues. In front of a live audience of millions watching around the country, both candidates are murdered in cold blood. How was the act committed, and who was responsible? It’s the greatest mystery the country has ever known. The nation and its leaders are angry and want answers. Who was behind the murders? Was it a foreign nation or the act of professional killers? Was our very democracy and way of life at stake?
The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs.
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