Nathan Jones – scarred for life by one night of horror in his Northern Irish past. And also by having the same name as a Supremes song.
Hoping for a fresh start, Nathan moves to New York but when his girlfriend leaves him,
he only has his new job for company – that of a security guard at the Empire State building. Recently acquired by a computer billionaire, the building is about to be visited by President Michael Keneally, an army of FBI men, and George Burley of Alabama, a white supremacist with the President at the top of his assassination Top Ten.
Wildly dark and wonderfully entertaining, EMPIRE STATE takes the world of politics – international, racial and sexual – and holds it hostage at the top of one of the most famous buildings on Earth.
Hoping for a fresh start, Nathan moves to New York but when his girlfriend leaves him,
he only has his new job for company – that of a security guard at the Empire State building. Recently acquired by a computer billionaire, the building is about to be visited by President Michael Keneally, an army of FBI men, and George Burley of Alabama, a white supremacist with the President at the top of his assassination Top Ten.
Wildly dark and wonderfully entertaining, EMPIRE STATE takes the world of politics – international, racial and sexual – and holds it hostage at the top of one of the most famous buildings on Earth.
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