Purple Dots

Washington, D.C., is a town full of powerful people with powerful, often conflicting agendas, and no one knows this better than Jim Lehrer, the capital's preeminent newscaster. His new novel is a provocative, only slightly tongue-in-cheek story about Joshua Bennett, the president's nominee to be the next CIA director, whose confirmation process turns into a political nightmare.Unfortunately for Bennett, someone's political agenda hinges on his confirmation being vetoed, but he's damned if he can find out whose. In need of good covert help he can trust, Bennett turns to a little-known but highly efficient cadre of ex-CIA spies living in semiretirement in nearby West Virginia. This odd team of sixty-plus-year-old spooks, boasting a combined army of exceptional if eccentric and largely illegal talent, embarks upon a wildly unorthodox Washington power struggle that is no less earnest for being conducted in absolute secrecy. Purple Dots will confirm all your worst fears about how our government really operates.

Author: Jim Lehren

Publisher: Random House

Released Date: 1998

ISBN: 0679452370