The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another intricately plotted, riveting suspense novel featuring Avery Keene, an ingenious Supreme Court clerk who becomes entangled in a case that has the dark underpinnings of a potential national crisis.
Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the president of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Keene is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho.
Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she recently took her own life, and he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved. Moments later, Avery is shocked when she witnesses Davies being murdered.
After breaking the encrypted file Davies gave to her, Avery reveals a list of names—all federal judges—and, alarmingly, all judges on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, also known as America’s “secret court.” It is this body that grants permission to the government to wiretap American individuals or corporations suspected of terrorism.
Avery knows Judge Whitner had been extorted, but as she investigates the names and cases associated with other judges on the list, she begins to see a frightening pattern—and she worries that something far more sinister may be unfolding.
Drawing from today’s headlines and weaving them together with her unique insider perspective, Abrams combines twisting plotlines, wry wit, and clever puzzles to create another immensely entertaining suspense novel.
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Stacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Time Is Now, among other books, an entrepreneur, and a political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as minority leader, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels. She is the founder of Fair Fight, Fair Count, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory board of Climate Power 2020 and the advocacy board of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. She has received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.
Adenrele Ojo is an actress, dancer, and audiobook narrator, winner of over a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018. She made her on-screen debut in My Little Girl, starring Jennifer Lopez, and has since starred in several other films. She has also performed extensively with the Philadelphia Dance Company. As the daughter of John E. Allen, Jr., founder and artistic director of Freedom Theatre, the oldest African American theater in Pennsylvania, is no stranger to the stage. In 2010 she performed in the Fountain Theatre’s production of The Ballad of Emmett Till, which won the 2010 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble. Other plays include August Wilson’s Jitney and Freedom Theatre’s own Black Nativity, where she played Mary.