Dark Money Synopsis

Dark Money is the forthcoming novel from John Risvold. 

Raymond Jefferson, CEO of Morley Tobacco, the world’s most powerful tobacco company, is in complete control. He pulls the strings in D.C. and holds all of the cards that make the most powerful politicians bend to his will.  That is until those politicians begin to move on legislation to ban a deadly chemical additive that Morley has been secretly using in their products. In order to stop this bill Morley pours millions of dollars of anonymous dark money into the presidential campaign of Speaker of the House Steven Warner. But buying a presidential candidate is only half of Jefferson’s solution. The other half is convincing Warner to make the chemical additive ban bill’s author, Congressman Kyle Richardson, Speaker Warner’s running mate. 

While Raymond Jefferson attempts to steal the election, he is oblivious to the fact that Kyle Richardson has a dark secret of his own. For years he has been skimming money from his political action committee to pad his own pockets. The Department of Justice has begun a quiet investigation into Richardson’s campaign finances that could threaten to expose Morley.

Struggling reporter Stephanie Mitchell stumbles upon the conspiracy when her uncle, the doctor who invented Morley’s deadly chemical compound, is murdered. Thrust into the conspiracy,  she begins to uncover the plot bit by bit. With the help of a Morley scientist and the United States Attorney investigating Richardson’s campaign finances she begins to piece together Jefferson’s deadly plan.

Raymond Jefferson and Morley Tobacco must deal with a dual threat. Richardson threatens Morley’s presidential ticket with his criminal investigation, Stephanie Mitchell threatens to expose their own criminal conspiracy. Now Jefferson and Morley Tobacco’s “fixer” Charles Fischer must silence Congressman Richardson and Stephanie Mitchell, by any means necessary. 

Read the First Chapter of DARK MONEY here