Defying odds is a common thread in this week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. From a description of the lengths to which leftists, federal and state governments and legacy media took to scuttle Donald Trump’s chances of being reelected as president to how an ailing composer with a declining audience wrote what many consider the most enduring orchestral-choral piece of the last three centuries, this week’s offerings tell of overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges. There is also the selection offering instructions on using one’s inner Green Beret warrior to meet any challenge, and another on the what the author says is an assault on America’s foundational principles launched by the government. The fiction choice is set in Liverpool, England.

“GREY HOOD,” by James Davidson (The Book Folks)

This latest installment of the Detectives Kush and Rose crime series opens with a wealthy amnesiac property manager wandering out of a tunnel holding a lady’s shoe. His wife is missing. The case, assigned to Detective Beth Kush, appears to be open-and-shut, until a crime boss is found dead, clutching an identical lady’s shoe. That case is assigned to Kush’s estranged half-sister, Detective Eleanor Rose. The cases are clearly related and may force the two to work together to solve their cases. “This is another excellent title in this series,” wrote Emily Gaynor for Amazon. “The world James Davidson constructs is fantastically dark, filled with grimy backstreets and claustrophobic underground spaces. The characters, too, are expertly rendered. It’s all woven together with a brilliant storyline all told through bewitching prose. I was transfixed throughout and what an ending!”  [Fiction]“Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic,” by Lee Smith (Encounter Books)

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