Our Girl in Washington

by Michele Mitchell

A Washington caper of fraud, blood, oil, and international intrigue with the fearless and irreverent Kate Boothe

Since sticking to her principles during the last presidential election, Kate Boothe has watched her political consulting business shrink. When she and her partner Jack are approached to do media strategy for the Essex Group, it’s a ticket into the inner circle of politics, and Kate plunges in.

On her first tour of duty for the company, a jaunt that sends her to Paris, she rendezvous with a longtime friend, a reporter who just happens to be investigating her new employer until he turns up murdered. Determined to unravel the reason for his death—and to bring down the perpetrator—Kate and her partner Jack find themselves caught up in a scheme involving fraud, blood, arms dealers, and oil in the ultimate power game.

288 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2006

Reviews

[Nikki]

i did not like the main character. and i kept waiting for the book to get better and the mistery more exciting. but it did not. so i was disappointed. i feel like the plot was too simple as well. i could have thought of the stuff and i don't know much about international intrigue or foriegn oil.

[Sara Jane]

Started off slow but finished nicely.

[Christine (Queen of Books)]

Dan Brown meets chick lit. Fast read.

Best line: "An orchestra was swelling to Count Basie, but no one was dancing. It was such a waste of good music." You get into the adventure of the story and then all of a sudden, Mitchell hits you with that!

[Darcie]

This book has potential but overall it was pretty bad. The 2 main characters are good but there are too many others to keep track of. I struggled to understand most of the plot but I always finish a book even when it's not very good.