Steve Martini
The Supreme Court is one of our most sacredâ€”and secretiveâ€”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. Constitutionâ€”and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson'sâ€”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 letterâ€”and the secrets it holds about slavery and scandal at the time of our nation's founding and the very reason Scarborough was killed. Madriani's chase takes him from the tension-filled courtroom in California to the trail of a high court justice now suddenly in hiding and lays bare the soaring political stakes for a seat on the highest court, in a country divided, and under the shadow of power.
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Shadow of Power