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Shadow of Power

✍ Scribed by Steve Martini


Publisher
HarperCollins e-Books
Year
2008;2014
Tongue
English
Weight
265 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The Supreme Court is one of our most sacredβ€”and secretiveβ€”public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly consequences.

Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making celebrity, but with his latest book he may have gone too far. In it he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S. Constitutionβ€”and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson'sβ€”that threatens to divide the nation.

Then, during a publicity tour, Scarborough is brutally murdered in a San Diego hotel room, and a young man with dark connections is charged. What looks like an open-and-shut case to most people doesn't to defense attorney Paul Madriani. He believes that there is much more to the case and that the defendant is a pawn caught in the middle, being scapegoated by circumstance.

As the trial spirals toward its conclusion, Madriani and his partner, Harry Hinds, race to find the missing Jefferson letterβ€”and the secrets it holds about...


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