Washington's most powerful politicians, journalists, businessmen and celebrity hangers-on had waited eagerly for their invitations. It was one of Georgetown's most interesting parties- a ride down the C and O canal in a mule-pulled barge. It was great fun; certainly Harry Fleet, furtrader and founder of Georgetown, would have been proud. But of course he's been dead for centuries-unlike the uninvited corpse found floating in the canal. The victim is Valerie Frolich: senator's daughter, Georgetown graduate student, and a rising young star in the fiercely competitive world of investigative journalism. The story she leaves behind would certainly have been the biggest of her young life- an evil web of intrigue that starts with plummeting real estate prices and escalates to a violent entanglement of murder, bribery, kindnapping, and international espionage....
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