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THE VOTER FILE

David Pepper

A twisty, one-step-ahead-of-the-headlines political thriller featuring a rogue reporter who investigates election meddling of epic proportions written by the ultimate insider.
Investigative reporter Jack Sharpe is down to his last chance. Fired from his high-profile gig with a national news channel, his only lead is a phonefull of messages from a grad student named Tori Justice, who swears she's observed an impossible result in a local election. Sharpe is sure she's mistaken...but what if she isn't?
Sharpe learns that the most important tool in any election is the voter file: the database that keeps track of all voters in a district, and shapes a campaign's game plan for victory. If one person were to gain control of an entire party's voter file, she could manipulate the outcome of virtually every election in America. Sharpe discovers this has happened--and that the person behind the hack is determined to turn American politics upside down.
The more he digs, the more Sharpe is forced to question the values--and viability--of the country he loves and a president he admired. And soon it becomes clear that not just his career is in jeopardy...so is his life.

David Pepper is the author of The People's House and The Wingman, both of which feature Jack Sharpe. He earned his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He has clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals; served in local elected office in Ohio; worked for major law firms; and taught election and voting rights law. Prior to law school, Pepper worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2015, he was unanimously elected Chairman of the Democratic Party of Ohio.
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Published 2020-06-02 by Putnam

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Drawing on his insider experience, David Pepper takes us into the dark underbelly of American electionshow campaigns use psychological warfare to target voters to the edge of the law, and beyond.

Pepper has done it again. Read this book before November 2020 and you will understand what could happen to our democracy. Let's hope the fiction in The Voter File doesn't become reality.

Pepper comes through again with this clever tale of how cyber sabotage of elections, coupled with highly concentrated ownership of traditional media operations, can undermine American democracy.

[A] highly plausible political thriller... .Enjoyable, timely, and realistic. Read more...

...engaging, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that throws off its share of sparks....scary... Read more...

Timely... [A] well-researched, gripping look at one of the many perilous wrinkles in the electoral system. Read more...

Believable, evocative, and shiver-inducing. As timely as tomorrow's headline, written by a man who knows exactly what he's talking about. It's also as unpredictable as a riptide, bringing what is a clear and present threat to modern democracy into pristine focus. Read and be warned.

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