Establishing the reality of this heinous secret tilts everything, and at first it seems as if Spencer's novel might be a thriller with a touch of the police procedural as cross-cutting chapters show the authorities investigating the crime.
But the oil-rich Algerian state, with its legacy of one-party rule and legions of officials all carefully vetted for loyalty by an omnipresent secret police, tilts the outcome heavily towards the candidate anointed by "Le Pouvoir", as Algerians call the circle of senior generals and security chiefs who actually run the country.
For weeks, the bright-eyed, 5-foot-5 Georgia girl had been slipping away from the rest of the family, to unlock the centuries-old secrets of tilting your head back, opening wide, and putting a lethal weapon down your throat.
But to some members of both parties, Americans Elect is a shadowy cabal financed by hedge fund money and undisclosed donors who could have a secret agenda to tilt the election one way or the other.
It is no secret that young voters tilt left on social issues like immigration and gay rights.
Headless and armless, the figure tilted slightly on its stand, as if leaning over to tell a secret.
On Friday evening, the Washington Post reported that the Central Intelligence Agency, in a secret assessment, had concluded that the Russian government sought to tilt last month's election toward Trump.
In December, a federal judge was told that Wen Ho Lee posed such a threat to national security that if he leaked the nuclear weapons secrets he had allegedly taken from the Los Alamos National Laboratory it could tilt the global balance of power.
Stamos and Moss said the U.S. government is tilting too much toward offense in cyberspace, using secret vulnerabilities that their targets can then discover and wield against others.
That the Drudge Report tilts favorably toward the Romney campaign is hardly a secret.
When a late-coming revelation about a sexual secret is added to the mix, this pinball machine threatens to flop into tilt mode.
