Baldacci, David

Absolute power / David Baldacci - First edition - New York, NY : Warner Books , c1996. - 469 p. ; 24 cm.

A burglar in the bedroom of a mansion has his work interrupted by the arrival of the mistress of the house with the president of the U.S. The couple have a fight and she is killed. The burglar flees, taking along a blood-stained letter opener as evidence, but is spotted by presidential bodyguards. The White House chief-of-staff, an ambitious woman, has him tracked and killed, but not before the burglar has told his story to a lawyer. The lawyer realizes he is next, but how to save oneself from the government?

9780446519960

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Presidents---Fiction---United States


Political fiction

PS3552.A446 / E93 1996

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