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A breathtaking new thriller from CNN star Jake Tapper explodes the chaotic underworlds of 1970's America - an AWOL US Marine returns home to a strange and dangerous country, new forces contort Washington's corridors of power, and the bland cultural surface barely conceals writhing paranoia, ambitions, and a lust for something new.. It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder's kids, are grown up - and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone somewhat off the grid, working on Evel Knievel's pit crew in Montana, when - after a bar fight - he has to flee a neo-Nazi gang and seek refuge in the woods with a group of Vietnam veterans. Lucy, a reporter, has become the star of the brand new Washington DC tabloid, the Sentinel, and is breaking all sorts of stories about a serial killer and falling in with the Lyons, the wealthy family that owns the newspaper, British immigrants with quite a different view of journalism than Lucy's heroes Woodward and Bernstein.
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Jacob Paul "Jake" Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American print and television journalist, currently the senior White House correspondent for ABC News in Washington, D.C. He was named to that position the day after election day 2008, having covered then-senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. He last interviewed Obama in July 2009 in Moscow, in an interview where the President expressed confidence that his foreign policy approach was starting to work and said regarding the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, "there's nothing that we would have done differently." That January, Tapper had broken the story of the tax troubles of then-Health and Human Services secretary nominee and former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), troubles that ultimately derailed Daschle's nomination. From March through July 2010, Tapper was interim anchor of ABC's This Week, hosting the program until…
