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Mike Lawson’s characters usually come with a flip side. In his latest thriller novel, “House Justice,” dirty-pool-playing Speaker of the House John Mahoney wallows in graft all day before refreshing himself as a volunteer Little League umpire. Mahoney’s chief fixer, Joe DeMarco, is outrunning his past as the son of a Mafia family. And Benny and Betty Ann Mark, a nice middle-aged couple from ...