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Executive Privilege: A Novel Tapa dura – 20 Mayo 2008
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New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to run for her life.
In Oregon, Brad Miller, a junior associate in a huge law firm is working on the appeal of a convicted serial killer. Clarence Little, now on death row, claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for the then governor, Christopher Farrington. Suddenly, a small-time private eye and a fledgling lawyer find themselves in possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying alive long enough to prove it.
Executive Privilege, with its nonstop action, unforgettable characters, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, proves once again that Phillip Margolin—whose work has been hailed as "frighteningly plausible" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and "twisted and brilliant" (Chicago Tribune)—belongs in the top echelon of thriller writers.
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Inglés
- EditorialHarper
- Fecha de publicación
2008
Mayo 20
- Dimensiones
6.0 x 1.2 x 9.0
pulgadas
- ISBN-100061236217
- ISBN-13978-0061236211
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“Chock full of harrowing chases, desperate situations and politics running rampant. Add in the corruption of power and the destructive force of lust, and you have all the ingredients for a winning thriller. Another page-turning read.” — Bookreporter.com
“Margolin has mastered all the elements of a successful suspense mystery. The action moves quickly. His prose is compelling: nothing is what it seems, and there are surprises even after the reader has been fooled into thinking the mystery is solved.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Page-turning...a rip-roaring conclusion...more twists than the Columbia River Gorge. Is it fun? A helluva lotta.” — Washington Post Express
“A sexy summer read--the perfect way to spend an afternoon. Mixing crime and politics may make for a bad career, but it sure as hell makes for some good reading.” — Cosmopolitan
“Just the kind of sizzling mystery needed for this long, hot summer. Margolin is the master of the successful suspense mystery. He gives you liberal doses of danger and evil villains, and keeps the action moving. Believable characters and compelling writing…another exciting trip through one of Margolin’s fast-paced plots.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
“Story lines collide in this pulse-pounding thriller . Expect plenty of buzz for this one as a result of both the intriguing premise and the well-wrought narrative.” — Booklist
“Sizzle factor: .38 Special hot.” — USA Today
“The story is fast-paced and features many engaging characters.” — Library Journal
“(A) thrilling page-turner.” — National Examiner
“Margolin is the master of the successful suspense mystery. With believable characters and compelling writing, EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE adds up to another exciting trip through one og Margolin’s plots [and] is just the kind of sizzling mystery needed for this long, hot summer.” — Pittsburgh Tribune
“Phillip Margolin [is] a crafty storyteller who keeps you on the edge of your seat with frighteningly real scenarios. EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE is a must read this summer.” — Brunswick News (Georgia)
“Reckless, fast, with no-holds-barred action and suspense, EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE will have you glued to your reading corner with a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on the door.” — Madison County Herald, MS
“Phillip Margolin has surprises up his sleeve for readers right to the end of this shocking thriller.” — Bookloons.com
“Looking for summer reading? Gather your hammock, some iced tea and this page-turner of a book, one of Margolin’s most absorbing and richly textured to date.” — Portland Oregonian
Biografía del autor
Phillip Margolin has written nineteen novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including his latest novels Woman with a Gun, Worthy Brown’s Daughter, Sleight of Hand, and the Washington trilogy. Each displays a unique, compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
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- Editorial : Harper (20 Mayo 2008)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tapa dura : 368 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 0061236217
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061236211
- Dimensiones : 6 x 1.17 x 9 pulgadas
- Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº606,920 en Libros (Ver el Top 100 en Libros)
- nº1,233 en Ficción Política (Libros)
- nº8,067 en Thrillers de Asesinato
- nº25,729 en Thrillers de Suspense (Libros)
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I grew up in New York City and Levittown, New York. In 1965, I graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in government. I spent 1965 to 1967 in Liberia, West Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer, graduated from New York University School of Law in 1970 as a night student. I went nights and worked as a junior high teacher in the South Bronx to support myself. My first job following law school was a clerkship with Herbert M. Schwab, the chief judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, and from 1972 until 1996, I was in private practice, specializing in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels. As an appellate attorney I have appeared before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Oregon Supreme Court, and the Oregon Court of Appeals. As a trial attorney, I handled all sorts of criminal cases in state and federal court, and have represented approximately thirty people charged with homicide, several of whom faced the death penalty. I was the first Oregon attorney to use battered women's syndrome to defend a woman accused of murdering her spouse.
Since 1996, I have been writing full-time. All of my novels have been bestsellers. Heartstone, my first novel, was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar for best original paperback mystery of 1978. My second novel, The Last Innocent Man, was made into an HBO movie. Gone, But Not Forgotten has been sold to more than twenty-five foreign publishers and was made into a miniseries starring Brooke Shields. It was also the Main Selection of the Literary Guild. After Dark was a Book of the Month Club selection. The Burning Man, my fifth novel, published in August 1996, was the Main Selection of the Literary Guild and a Reader's Digest condensed book. My sixth novel, The Undertaker's Widow, was published in 1998 and was a Book of the Month Club selection. Wild Justice (HarperCollins, September 2000) was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild, a selection of the Book of the Month Club, and was nominated for an Oregon Book Award. The Associate was published by HarperCollins in August 2001, and Ties that Bind was published by HarperCollins in March 2003. My tenth novel, Sleeping Beauty, was published by HarperCollins on March 23, 2004. Lost Lake was published by HarperCollins in March 2005 and was nominated for an Oregon Book Award. Proof Positive was published by HarperCollins in July 2006. Executive Privilege was published by HarperCollins in May 2008 and in 2009 was given the Spotted Owl Award for the Best Northwest Mystery. Fugitive was published by HarperCollins on June 2, 2009. Willamette Writers gave me the 2009 Distinguished Northwest Writers Award. My latest novel, Supreme Justice, was published by HarperCollins in May 2010. My next novel, Capitol Murder, will come out in April 2012.
On October 11, 2011, HarperCollins will publish Vanishing Acts, my first Young Adult novel, which I wrote with my daughter, Ami Margolin Rome. Also in October, the short story "The Case of the Purloined Paget," which I wrote with my brother, Jerry, will be published by Random House in the anthology A Study in Sherlock.
In addition to my novels, I have published short stories and nonfiction articles in magazines and law journals. My short story "The Jailhouse Lawyer" was selected for the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories 1999. The House on Pine Terrace was selected for the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories 2010.
From 1996 to 2009 I was the president and chairman of the Board of Chess for Success. I am still heavily involved in the program, and returned to the board after a one-year absence in 2010. Chess for Success is a nonprofit charity that uses chess to teach study skills to elementary- and middle-school children in Title I schools . From 2007 to the present, I have been on the Board of Literary Arts, which sponsors the Oregon Book Awards, the Writers in the Schools program, and Portland Arts and Lectures.
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Brad Miller an associate in a Portland, Oregon, law firm has been given a pro bono case. It should be a slam dunk. But the convicted killer has an alibi that was never investigated. He may be an evil person, but on that particular night he claims to have been somewhere else, doing things he did not want to talk about in court.
The two cases are drawn together as links are made to the president and members of his personal entourage. If you are on the run, who can you trust if you have government assassins involved? And what do you do if you are ordered to drop the case?
A case of abuse of power, the novel has violence (most by description of events including some gory details, but some immediately happening), sexual content (mostly by reference) and some language consistent with the plot (but not a lot). It became a page turner as I got towards the end.
It did seem to digress a in places filling in details of some people's backgrounds; but it is generally a well written novel with a well developed plot.
[Excerpt from an April 2012 article by Jeff Baker in “The Oregonian” based on his interview with Phillip Margolin after the author had completed the final book in his “Washington Trilogy” featuring private detective Dana Cutler and fledgling lawyer Brad Miller: Books in the series are “Executive Privilege,” “Supreme Justice,” and “Capitol Murder.”]
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But the real story, the one Margolin can't wait to tell, is about how he got the idea for "Executive Privilege" in the first place. It was 1995, and his writing career had gone from dormant to stratospheric two years earlier with the publication of "Gone, But Not Forgotten," an international best-seller. Margolin's long career as a criminal defense attorney provided him the basis for some of his books, and he was trying to come up with an idea for his next one.
"What's the worst thing a president could do?" Margolin said. "That's what I started wondering. Well, he could murder somebody. But (other writers) had already done that. Could a president be a serial killer?"
Margolin loved the idea and told it to his editor at a sales conference. The response was immediate.
"Don't do that book," Margolin said, laughing. "He told me there was a young guy with a book coming out in a couple of months that had a similar plot, and it would look like I was copying him."
The novel was "Absolute Power" by David Baldacci, who wound up doing just fine for himself.
[End of Excerpt from The Oregonian}
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We’ve become hardened, I suppose, over the years to what presidents and lesser politicians will do to cling to their positions or accomplish their agendas. Nevertheless, in Baldacci’s “Absolute Power” and Margolin’s “Executive Privilege” the authors take the possible actions of a U.S. President or his underlings to the unthinkable extreme.
After a violent episode in Dana Cutler’s career as a cop, she retires to private practice and accepts an assignment to follow a young co-ed who is thought to be involved in stealing secrets from the campaign offices of President Chris Farrington’s opponent in the upcoming election. Cutler trails the young lady to a farmhouse where she meets with Farrington and, after a lengthy shouting match with the President, is taken by the Secret Service back to her car. Her body is discovered the following day in a dumpster. The wounds which caused her death are suggestive of a serial killer known as the “D.C. Ripper.” Was her murder the work of this madman or could it somehow be related to her meeting with the President?
Through various routes, P.I. Cutler, FBI Agent in Charge Keith Evans, and recent law school graduate Brad Miller become involved in the case and convinced that the President of the United States is up to his neck in the mess.
After all, “Executive Privilege” and “Absolute Power” are not just abstract terms. They are the thread and fabric of every organized government that has existed since the dawn of time.
A young woman romantically linked to the President becomes the victim of DC area serial-killer -- and it turns out that she's not the first young woman romantically linked to the President to have become the victim of a serial killer. And the ruthless President's wife is named Claire. Now try picturing this couple as anyone other than Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright -- even though this President is from Oregon, not South Carolina. And picture the young victims as any of Frank Underwood's paramours or staff members from "House of Cards" Seasons one through five.
"Executive Privilege" is also interesting because of its autobiographical details. One of the two main characters is a hard-charging female ex-FBI agent who has PTSD following a brutal gang-rape -- OK, nothing special there, that's par for the course in this kind of mass-market legal thriller/police procedural. But the other main character is a young Oregon law firm associate, whose biography reads a lot like a young Philip Margolin's. The young lawyer is assigned a pro-bono death penalty appeal by a politically connected senior partner at his firm. Soon, both the young lawyer and the FBI agent find themselves caught up investigating the two Presidential serial killer victims, and they soon have to team up under -- yep, you guessed it -- a hail of bullets.
"Privilege" is a page-turner of a read; I won't call it "fun" because all of the sexual assault and serial killing lends the novel a trashy, voyeuristic, exploitative feel. There is very little mystery involved in whodunit, with some of the chapter headings giving the game away even if the text didn't make it blindingly obvious. But the young lawyer is an appealing protagonist, and, if you've read this book after November 2016, as I did, the conspiracy theories streaming out of Margolin's White House are no longer as remotely ridiculous as the author likely intended them to be.
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