Jakki Clarke

Death by a Thousand Cuts Jakki Clarke

Ben Campbell, a young political operative, draws a plum gig as campaign manager to incumbent senator Dino Bruni, consummate politician and a shoo-in for reelection. Campbell figures he'll phone this one in, marry blue-blood debutant Kat Van Horn, and write his own ticket. Enter Campbell's childhood best friend Sydney Langston, fresh off a breakup with Cody Briggs of NFL Superbowl fame. She has some dirt on the senator she's looking to confirm. The cutting-edge charter school Senator Bruni built as a monument to himself is starting to draw suspicion, but Campbell doesn't want to hear any of it. There's simply too much at stake. But when a Bruni underling commits a shocking act of violence, Ben can't ignore the facts any longer. Bruni signals he will stop at nothing to maintain his cover-up when he calls in a bevy of unhinged white supremacists to snuff out anyone who stands in his way. When the bloody climax arrives, Campbell and Langston will face down death in their quest to uncover the truth and take down Bruni.