699 pages
English language
Published April 27, 1996 by Thorndike Press.
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States.
Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Alan Richmond is the charming U.S. president with the power to commit any crime. And Jack Graham is the young attorney caught in a vortex between absolute truth and…Absolute Power.
I tried a couple of other Baldacci's and they were really quite terrible, but this one was clever and well thought out.
I know I saw the movie when it came out, but either don't remember it well or the script was significantly different from the novel. Overall an entertaining thriller, though there were some holes that could have been better filled.
The rare cases where the movie was better than the book...
