Mackerel by Moonlight

By Ellie Mack

Combining suspense and a hilarious inside view of American politics, "Mackerel by Moonlight" tells the story of a disgraced D.A. who gets bitten by the political bug, and, just as he is on the brink of election to the Senate, takes drastic action against those who would stand in his way.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684853469
• ISBN13: 9780684853468
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Weld-worth reading.

Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. "Bill" Weld combines lawyerly sophistication with street smarts in a highly readable political comedy/thriller that prolongs a death mystery until the very last page. Weld's writing is pithy and punchy. Why he choose to narrate the story through eyes of a smarmy Irish-American lawyer escapes me. Perhaps Weld is needling all those Irish politicians he had to put with during his time in Boston's...

Mullally.

His last name is Mullally

Great fun to read; not too intense.

Bill Weld uses his vast knowledge of politics and the local Massachusetts culture in writing this fun novel, based on his own life. Terry Mullany, an orphan born in Boston and raised in Brooklyn, runs for political office and falls in love along the way. The book will be enjoyed by all, especially New Englanders or New Yorkers.

A totally satisfying read

Thirtyish Terrence Mullaly is forced to flee from his job as an Assistant DA in the federal prosecutor's office in Brooklyn when some undercover sting turns out to be, at best, questionable. He flees to a private law firm in Boston where to his own shock he is being courted to run against the incumbent DA. He isstunned when he learns that he wins. Though he knows his own past is not clean, Terrence begins to court the...