Protect and Defend

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Author: Richard North Patterson
Narrator: Patricia Kalember
Genres: Fiction, True-Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: December 2000
Length: 5 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 3.5/5
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Overview

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 woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case--a trial pitting a 15-year old girl against her pro-life parents--will come before the court. And, the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president's nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal.

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, in an unprecedented novelistic depection of the legal process from the perspective of the judge rather than the lawyers, a revelation of both how the judicial system works and how it intersects with politics, for better and for worse.

Selected Reviews

Protect and Defend

by M. Thoene
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Boring

by D Glover
  • Book Rating: 1/5

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Reviews (2)

Protect and Defend

Written by M. Thoene from El Cajon, CA on July 1st, 2005

  • Book Rating: 5/5

This is an excellent book. The storyline conveys nicely that life can have difficult choices. I do recommend this audio.

Boring

Written by D Glover from Philadelphia, PA on June 22nd, 2005

  • Book Rating: 1/5

when I first read the summary of this book it sounded interesting; however after listening to the first Disc it became boring and too hard to keep up. Maybe I will revisit this at a later date.

Selected Reviews

Protect and Defend

by M. Thoene
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Boring

by D Glover
  • Book Rating: 1/5

More...

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Author Details

Author Details

Patterson, Richard North

"Richard North Patterson's ten previous novels include the international best-sellers Degree of Guilt, Eyes of a Child, The Final Judgment, and Silent Witness. To write No Safe Place, Mr. Patterson traveled with the 1996 campaign, attended a national political convention, and observed the intimate workings of the Senate. He interviewed more than fifty people, including a former President; presidential candidates; United States senators; a cabinet secretary; senior White House staffers; political consultants, campaign managers, press secretaries, and pollsters; members of the national press; and Secret Service agents.
Mr. Patterson is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve School of Law, and he studied creative writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de Litt‚rature PoliciŠre. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard."