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A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most crucial popular novelists at the job today.
A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a female whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the chance that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- should come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is set to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the non-public.
As these stories intertwine, building in complexity and suspense, Patterson gives us the resounding clash of competing ambitions between the president and the majority leader; the equally momentous collision of science and culture in the courtroom; and, within an unprecedented novelistic depiction of the legal process from the perspective of the judge as opposed to the lawyers, a surprising rvelation of both the way the judicial system works and how it intersects with politics, for better or for worse.
PROTECT AND DEFEND is a triumph- the definitive novel of politics and law at the dawn of the 21st century.
