Protect and Defend

Patterson, Richard North

ISBN 10: 0375416765 ISBN 13: 9780375416767

Casa editrice: Random House, 2000

Riassunto

When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead immediately following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon finds the first order of business is to find a replacement, settling on Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides the career-damaging secret of an illegitimate child, a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case.

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Recensione:

"PROTECT AND DEFEND IS A WINNER. . . . ENGROSSING FROM THE FIRST PAGE . . . Patterson crank[s] up a wild ride on a roller coaster of morality, politics, and emotions."
--USA Today

"POWERFUL . . . RIVETING FROM BEGINNING TO END . . . With Protect and Defend, Richard North Patterson lays further claim to being one of America’s best contemporary popular novelists."
--The Detroit News

"BRILLIANT . . . PATTERSON HAS CAUGHT LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE. . . . PUT THIS ONE AT THE TOP OF YOUR HOT LIST."
--STEPHEN KING

From the Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Richard North Patterson is the author of 10 previous novels, including Dark Lady, No Safe Place, The Final Judgement, and Eyes of a Child.  He has won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and France's Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere.  He lives with his wife and children in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.

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• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375416765
• ISBN 13: 9780375416767
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta