News: September 9, 2003

Dark Ambition continues to sell throughout the country. The novel was prominently discussed in an article which appeared in the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, on June 2, 2003. This paper, published five times a week, enjoys a large circulation among people working in congress and those who lobby and deal with the Hill.

READ THE ARTICLE HERE.

News: April 14, 2003

Allan Topol will appear at the 4th Annual Bethesda Literary Festival in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday, April 26th, at 3 pm. Allan will appear with Congressman Peter King, author of "Justice For All" and Stephen Horn, author of "Law of Gravity". They will discuss and read excerpts from their newest works of law and political fiction.

Allan Topol is scheduled to appear for a book signing and discussion at the Barnes & Noble Book Store in Towson, Maryland, on Saturday, June 7th from 1-4 pm.

News: February 5, 2003

The Salt Lake City Library System has nominated Spy Dance as a nominee for their semi-annual Reader's Choice Award.

The Salt Lake County Library System is the largest in Utah, serving over 600,000 residents, with 18 libraries. Twice a year, the Reader's Choice Committee selects twenty or more recently published titles that have been recommended by other staff or customers. These books are on display at each Salt Lake County Library for a four-month period. After reading any of the books on their Reader's Choice list, customers may rate the books using one of their ballot forms.

News: January 6, 2003

Dark Ambition is due to be released tomorrow, the 7th of January. Today's copy of Publishers Weekly features the following review:

Dark Ambition
Allan Topol, Onyx, (480p)

John Grisham and Richard North Patterson may have a new successor in Topol. The Washington D.C. lawyer’s second thriller (after Spy Dance) exposes a power-hungry group of people in the White House’s inner sanctum. When womanizing Secretary of State Robert Winthrop is murdered, Washington’s top brass push for a quick conviction of Winthrop’s African-American gardener, even though many doubt his guilt. Eventually, federal prosecutor Ben Hartwell and Gillis’s attorney, Jennifer Moore (also Hartwell’s old flame), team up to uncover an intricate operation linking Winthrop’s murder to officials in the Chinese government who loathed the secretary for supporting arms build-up in Taiwan, and to someone who may have close ties to the Oval office. Suspicions fall on a broad cast of characters, including the President’s chief of staff and a young FBI agent appointed to the case. As entertaining as it is complex, this energetic narrative is loaded with close calls and compelling relationships. While keeping track of the numerous key characters isn’t always easy, Topol weaves a convincing conspiracy theory.

--Publishers Weekly

News: December 4, 2002

Dark Ambition is off to a great launch!

The first reader outside of the people involved with the book, a supervisor at a Barnes & Noble store in the Los Angeles area, has written an e-mail which states:

"Great work. You did it again. I'm happy to say I really liked your new mystery. As before, it will be an easy sell... Did you always know you had it in you to write? I would like to get a couple more [advance] copies to pass out among the employees here in the store, I want to get them as excited about Dark Ambition as I am."

Book signings are currently set for:

Wednesday, January 15, 7:30 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
4801 Bethesda Avenue
Bethesda, Maryland

Thursday, January 16, 12:30 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
555 12th Street
Washington, D.C.

Thursday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
Montrose Crossing Shopping Center
12089 Rockville Pike
Rockville, Maryland

The publisher is planning ads in USA Today. I also have several speaking appearances scheduled before private groups in New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

The first chapter of Dark Ambition (which you can read on this web site) is being used for on-line promotion. We have finished editing the next book, set for publication within 12 months of Dark Ambition. The subject is so explosive that my editor has asked me not to talk about it.

I would urge you to buy your copy of Dark Ambition as soon as books hit the bookstores on January 7.

News: October 9, 2002

Allan Topol's sleeper-hit debut, Spy Dance (November, 2001) became a national bestseller--now in its 4th printing.

A new master of intrigue, Allan Topol has been compared to Clancy, Ludlum, and Le Carre

Praise from such diverse sources as San Francisco Chronicle, Newt Gingrich, The Jewish Chronicle, Legal Times, and Washingtonian Online

Spy Dance is about a former CIA agent on the run. He becomes involved with a sensuous woman in the Israeli Mossad. Together, they become drawn into a plot hatched by a ruthless female French industrialist to control Saudi Arabian oil.

First time in print--Allan Topol's electrifying follow-up to his bestselling debut: Dark Ambition, On Sale January 7, 2003

Dark Ambition is about the assassination of a secretary of state. It involves the explosive political issue of China and Taiwan. Most important, it deals with what happens when powerful, ambitious individuals come to Washington to take top positions in the government--how their lives change and how they destroy others.

Topol is a senior partner at a well known Washington law firm

DARK AMBITION On Sale January 7, 2003 The secretary of state has been murdered in his home. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. It seems the prime suspect is the politician's gardener. But in Washington, D.C., nothing is as it seems. Justice Department lawyer Ben Hartwell is assigned the unenviable task of finding the truth. His greatest obstacle--and ally--is the lawyer for the accused. Together they uncover a lifetime of political intrigues, private indiscretions, personal ememies-and questionable ties to the Chinese Government--in the victim's high-level career. But was the secretary of state merely a puppet in a vast conspiracy? And if so, who cut the strings? The answers could expose America's darkest secrets--and silence anyone who digs too deep.

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